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Sheila Squillante

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Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from BrickHouse Books, and Beautiful Nerve, (Tiny Hardcore, 2014) as well as three chapbooks of poetry: In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry, and A Woman Traces the Shoreline. She is also co-author, along with Sandra L. Faulkner, of the craft book, Writing the Personal: Getting Your Stories Onto the Page. She directs the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she is Executive Editor of The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her family.
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What to Read When You’re a Weird Girl

  • Sheila Squillante
  • January 29, 2021
Sheila Squillante shares a reading list to celebrate MOSTLY HUMAN.
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Strip District Meats

  • Sheila Squillante
  • December 2, 2019
Already, at nine, my son knows that eating makes me happy.
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After the Verdict We Watch Fireworks

  • Sheila Squillante
  • July 12, 2012
And that house right there? The one that sits exactly adjacent to field? Whose windows overlook the swings and the monkey bars and the kiddie pool and the slip-n-slide and the blackberry bushes? That is Jerry Sandusky’s house.
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