POET + EDITOR + EDUCATOR
Raena Shirali is the author of two collections of poetry. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022, summonings won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was a long-list finalist for the 2022 Julie Suk Award . summonings was also a da Vinci Eye Book Award finalist and a Foreword Reviews’ 2022 INDIES Prize finalist. This highly anticipated collection investigates ongoing witch hunting practices in India while exploring the possibilities and limitations of docupoetics and persona poetry. summonings appeared on Sm
Shirali’s first book, GILT (YesYes Books, 2017), won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award). An experimental collection grappling with standards created by an invisible system and enforced by family, relationships, and violations of women’s rights in a reckoning of intersectional identity, GILT was named a long-list finalist for the 2017 Julie Suk Award , an August 2017 Small Press Distribution Poetry Bestseller , & was ranked #5 on TRACK//FOUR's list of Ten Most Anticipated Poetry Collections by People