Shenandoah Sowash's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Collagist, Menacing Hedge, Smartish Pace, VINYL Poetry, RHINO, PANK Magazine, Poet Lore, and elsewhere.The recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the Arts, she was a finalist for the Smartish Pace Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, the Devil's Lake Driftless Poetry Prize as well as the Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Contest. She attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference through a work-study scholarship ("waitership") and also traveled to Lithuania through an Editor's Choice Award (full tuition scholarship) from the Summer Literary Seminars. Currently completing her first book, Shenandoah lives in Washington, D.C. and works at American University.