Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, No Rhododendron, was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series) in 2025. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he was the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University and is currently an Assistant Professor of English-Creative Writing at Hendrix College.
Select Publications:
“A Blessing”: POETRY
“Mother Tongue: A Haunting”: Southern Humanities Review
“Dear Unborn Moonbug,”: Gulf Coast
“I Do Not Know How Anything Gets Here”: KR Online
“The Last Beekeeper”: Shenandoah
“Nomad” & “Luciferin”: Gulf Coast Online Exclusives
“Lachryphagus”: TriQuarterly
“Bride of the Revolution”: Waxwing