Shavawn Berry

Shavawn M. Berry’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rebelle Society, The Cancer Poetry Project 2, Kinema Poetics, Kalliope, Poet Lore, Westview - A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Concho River Review, North Atlantic Review, Synapse, Living Buddhism, Blue Mountain Arts/SPS, and Poetry Seattle. Her technique essay on the dramatic monologue/persona poem is featured in a poetry database published in 2013 by Ebsco Publishing. In 1998, she received her MPW in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she specialized in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir. Ms. Berry teaches writing at Arizona State University where she is currently a 2013 Lincoln Ethics Teaching Fellow. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/shavawnmidoriberry or read more of her work on her blog, http://fallingintowonderland.wordpress.com/. A portfolio featuring a selection of her essays, blog postings, and prose is available at https://shavawnberry.contently.com/.