Shayla Lawson

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Shayla Lawson’s work has appeared, in Guernica, The Journal, Colorado Review, South Dakota Review, Winter Tangerine Review, inter|rupture, and MiPOesias. She is Nonfiction Editor of Indiana Review and the inaugural winner of Sou’Wester’s Robbins Award in Poetry.

Her work is supported by fellowships provided through the Kentucky Foundation for Women, Indiana University, the Giorgio Cini Foundation, and Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts—where she serves as Creative Writing Chair. She is a member of the Affrilachian Poets.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2016*

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