Shelby Handler is a writer and organizer.
Shelby Handler is a writer and organizer living in Seattle on Dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) and unceded Coast Salish land. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, Redivider, Poetry Northwest, Black Warrior Review Online, The Journal, Southern Indiana Review, among others.
Shelby received their MFA in poetry at the University of Washington-Seattle, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s Emerging Poet Prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Shelby has received fellowships, support, and residencies from Seattle Public Library, Tin House, the Richard Hugo House, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Centrum, Mineral School, the Seventh Wave, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Gay City Arts, Asylum Arts, and the Yiddish Book Center. Currently, they work at Jewish Voice for Peace.
Shelby received their MFA in poetry at the University of Washington-Seattle, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and was a finalist for Palette Poetry’s Emerging Poet Prize, judged by Ilya Kaminsky. Shelby has received fellowships, support, and residencies from Seattle Public Library, Tin House, the Richard Hugo House, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Centrum, Mineral School, the Seventh Wave, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Gay City Arts, Asylum Arts, and the Yiddish Book Center. Currently, they work at Jewish Voice for Peace.