sheena d. is a writer, humorist, and doodler.
her scribbles and doodles have received a center for fiction/susan kamil emerging writer fellowship, won the miriam chaikin prose award, made the longreads best of list, and decked the walls of the massillon museum.
sheena works and lives in new york city, teaches first year writing at parsons school of design, reads flash fiction submissions at split lip magazine, and is writing a novel—in slow motion.
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[how i wonder what we are], Unlost Journal of Found Poetry and Art
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A Short Story About a Woman Who Can't Stop Burying Things, Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Anthology
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Big Mouth Mitchie, CRAFT Literary
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A Fortune Teller Worth Her Ball Should Refuse to Tell You When You're Going to Die, Passages North
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The Wanderer: A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont,
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The Numbers in My Phone, Autostraddle
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Fried Fish, The Hennepin Review
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Pushcart Prize Nominee
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The Best Small Fictions Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee
On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun, Taco Bell Quarterly
Visiting a Boy's Room, Split Lip Magazine
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The Best Small Fictions Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee
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Wigleaf Longlist
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Republished in EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, Volume II
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A Series of Observations Regarding the Present Pandemic's Persistence, Zone 3 Press
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Wherein the Civil Court of State Sanctioned Companionship Considers a Petition,
Emerge: Lambda Fellows Anthology
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doodles + collage
there are reasons, forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom
before the condos, forthcoming in I Haven't Made It Home Yet
dancing, drinking, dying, and easy to care for, printed in Colour into Focus
The Clutched Hen, COOP: Chickens of Our Poetry #10 ​
The Playbook, The Inventor, and The Champions, exhibited at Massillon Museum​
late night searches, The Inquisitive Eater
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​prose awards
Third Place, Dream Foundry Speculative Writing Contest
Fellow, The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writers Fellowship
Winner, Miriam Chaikin Prose Writing Award
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competitive writing residencies
Artist Resident, Spruceton Inn
Juried Fellow, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
Artist in Residence, Bryn Du Mansion
Resident, St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies
Editorial Resident, The Seventh Wave
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grants + support for writing/research projects + workshops
Arts & Media Travel Research Fellow, Smith College Special Collections
Funding Recipient, Lambda Literary Emerging Fellows
Fiction Fellow, Kimbilio for Black Fiction
Diversity Grantee, Delacorte Review, Columbia Journalism School
microphones + lecturns
"Lessons in Leaving: A One Woman Show," in SOLOCOM NYC ‘26, Pit NYC’s Solo Show Festival
"Lorraine Hansberry's Lists: A Tool for Daydreamers, Data Collectors, and the Devoted," The Free Black Women's Library