Shane Seely

Shane Seely’s The Surface of the Lit World was selected by Sarah Linsday for the 2014 Hollis Summers Prize from University of Ohio Press. His first book, The Snowbound House, won the 2008 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry and was published by Anhinga Press in 2009. Slash Pine Press published his chapbook, History Here Requires Balboa, in 2012. His poems have appeared in journals nationwide, including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review, and Antioch Review, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. Shane is a graduate of the MFA program at Syracuse University.