Shoshauna Shy is the author of poetry collections Souped-Up on the Must-Drive Syndrome (Pudding House Publications), Slide Into Light (Moon Journal Press), White Horses on Sale for a Song (Parallel Press), What the Postcard Didn’t Say (Zelda Wilde Publishing), and The Splash of Easy Laughter (Kelsay Books). The latter two won Outstanding Achievement awards from the Wisconsin Library Association.
In 2023 through 2025, her poems were finalists, shortlisted, or received Honorable Mentions from Naugatuck River Review for their 15th Annual narrative contest, Raw Earth Ink’s Northwind Writing Awards, Fish Publishing’s annual poetry prize, Wisconsin Writers Association’s Jade Ring Contest, and Passager Books. Her poems have been made into videos, graced the interior of taxi cabs, and even decorated the hind quarters of city buses.
She is also a flash fiction, short story, and micro-memoir author, founder of the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program, Woodrow Hall Editions, and the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Awards. She lives with her husband in Madison, Wisconsin, and runs a thriving cat care business, experiences which have been captured in a nonfiction guidebook called Cat Sitter Secrets, which can be found at CatSitterSecrets.com.
Learn more about Shoshauna at:
PoetryJumpsOfftheShelf.com
Paperback: 134 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (April 3, 2026)