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sheena d! is an essayist and humorist. Her writing has been published in Ms. Magazine, Autostraddle, and elsewhere, featured on the Longreads Best of 2022 list, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions Anthology. sheena d! is a Brooklyn Public Library Incubator grantee and a Margolis Social-Justice Journalism Award finalist, and has received support from Hedgebrook, Lambda Literary, Kimbilio, and other literary organizations. She is from Ohio, lives in New York City, and spent a chunk of her life moving around. An inaugural resident at St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies, and former artist-in-residence at Bryn Du Mansion, she’s working on an essay collection that bridges memoir and cultural criticism to meditate on blackness in far flung places.
accolades & stuff
Artist in Residence, Bryn Du Mansion
Funding Recipient, Lambda Literary Emerging Fellows
Fiction Fellow, Kimbilio for Black Fiction
Provost Diversity Fellow, Columbia University
Summer Comedy Workshop Award Recipient, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation
Scholarship Recipient, Dave Family Humor Studies
Finalist, Richard J. Margolis Social-Justice Journalism Award
Scholarship Recipient, Aspen Words
Resident, St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies
Editorial Resident, The Seventh Wave
Diversity Grantee, Delacorte Review, Columbia Journalism School
Grantee, BKLYN Incubator, Brooklyn Public Library