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Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson

Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson is a writer and educator living in the suburbs of Chicago. Her work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Rattle, Off Assignment, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Carve Magazine, Salamander, The Baltimore Review, Sugar House Review, and other journals. She’s received support from Vermont Studio Center, Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency, and The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, and Best New Poets. She earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the former co-poetry editor for The Maine Review.
  • Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson

    Self. Pleasure.

    After all that foreplay, I’m brooding—my feathers, ruffled. Then, the me who wants me takes me to bed, undresses me slowly, covers me in kisses. I’ve always had a way with me: I know what I want and how to…