Harriet Shenkman is former Poet-in-Residence of the J.C.C. of Mid-Westchester and current Poet-in-Residence of Broadview Senior Living. She earned a Ph.D. from Fordham University, an M.Ed. from Duke University, and is a professor emerita at The City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association Annual Contest and the Women Who Write International Poetry Contest.
Her work has appeared in Westchester Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review, The Berru Poetry Series of the Jewish Book Council, Fig Tree Press, The Marbled Sigh, and elsewhere. She has read her work at public libraries, the J.C.C. of Mid-Westchester, and at the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center. Her two chapbooks, Teetering (2014) and The Present Abandoned (2020), were published by Finishing Line Press. Her full-length collection Wonder Wheel was published in 2023 by Grayson Books. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she is a first-generation American. She is grateful for her late husband, three children, two granddaughters, and a grand-dog, and is lucky to have re-coupled later in life with the man who became her muse.
Her website is:
Shenkman.wixsite.com/harriet
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (July 11, 2025)