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Without childcare support, many parents struggle to work. My latest labor column is out!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahJune 16, 2025matter news, labor rights, labor, labor column, childcare crisis, ohio kids first

I read some poems for a Palestine fundraiser!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahJune 16, 2025palestine, palestine writes, palestinian, palestine poem, nonprofit, fundraiser, redneck palestinian, arab american national museum, ask the night for a dream, anthology, poetry writer, poet

2 new poems just dropped! Both are critiques on the art world

writing updates, WE HAD MANSIONSMandy ShunnarahMay 28, 2025poem, poems, palestine poem, ekphrastic, ekphrasis, dora maar, urban arts space, commune journal, artist commune, columbus ohio, columbus oh, we had mansions, new poem

WE HAD MANSIONS COVER REVEAL + PREORDER LINK!!

WE HAD MANSIONS COVER REVEAL + PREORDER LINK!!

WE HAD MANSIONS, writing updatesMandy ShunnarahMay 19, 2025we had mansions, poetry book, poetry collection, palestine poem, palestinian genocide, palestinian, palestinian history, palestinian art, palestinian author, palestinian poetry, cover reveal, book cover reveal, diode editions, fundraiser, preorder

My latest labor column is out at Matter News! Learn more about the Pay Stub Protection Act

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahMay 6, 2025the worker's view, matter news, pay stub protection act, central ohio worker center, immigrants, immigrant community, wage theft

I've got 2 new poems in The Dodge!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahMay 5, 2025the dodge, lit mag, literary magazine, poetry writer, new poem, we had mansions

My latest labor column is out!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahApril 14, 2025the worker's view, matter news, osu, wexner medical center, osu hospital, unsafe staffing, understaffed, working conditions, labor, labor rights, labor column, journalist, journalism

Listen to me read "ode to cows & clitorises"!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahApril 13, 2025crab creek review, poetry reading, poetry, poetry writer, ode to cows & clitorises, lit mag, literary magazine

Give these local queer bands and musicians a listen!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahMarch 18, 2025experience columbus, lgbtq, queer, queer musicians, queer bands, columbus oh, columbus oh music

The second installment in my labor column at Matter News is out!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahFebruary 28, 2025the worker's view, matter news, iatse, iatse local 12, the wex, wexner center for the arts, ohio state university, osu, union, union organizers, stagehand, theater

Read my 2 newest poems in Electric Lit!

writing updates, WE HAD MANSIONSMandy ShunnarahFebruary 5, 2025electric literature, electric lit, palestinian, palestinian author, palestine poem, palestinian writers, palestinian poetry, new poem, poetry writer, poetry, poems, poem, poet, palestine

Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry is available for preorder!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahFebruary 3, 2025heaven looks like us, palestinian poetry, george abraham, noor hindi, haymarket books, anthology, poetry anthology, palestinian poetry anthology

I'm in the Tin House Winter Online Workshop and the Kenyon Winter Online Workshop this year!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahFebruary 3, 2025tin house, tin house winter online workshop, tin house workshop, kenyon review, kenyon winter online workshop, kenyon poetry workshop, tin house poetry workshop, sophomore slump

I've got a labor column at Matter News!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahFebruary 3, 2025matter news, the worker's view, labor column, labor, labor rights, planned parenthood, planned parenthood of greater ohio, ppgoh, union, union organizers, planned parenthood union

I was interviewed in Voyage Ohio!

life stuff, writing updatesMandy ShunnarahDecember 23, 2024voyage ohio, interview, Q&A, writing, writer

Here's a video of my latest performance!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahDecember 19, 2024video, video poem, performance, con tu variety show, dunlap's corner bar, cleveland, cleveland ohio, variety show, comedy, queer poem, palestine poem, palestinian art, palestinian writers, queer writers, stephanie ginese

I'm in the latest issue of Nonbinary Review!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahDecember 18, 2024nonbinary review, zoetic press, ritual, lit mag, literary magazine, poem, new poem

Preorder the first anthology from Palestine Writes Press!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahDecember 13, 2024palestine writes, palestine writes literature festival, palestinian art, palestinian, palestinian author, palestinian writers, ask the night for a dream, anthology

My first Pushcart nom for poetry?!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahDecember 9, 2024pushcart, pushcart prize, nomination, poem, our people had mansions, porter house review, editor's prize in poetry, poetry award

I was nominated for the Pushcart Prize!

writing updatesMandy ShunnarahDecember 6, 2024osu's the journal, osu, ohio state university, the journal, on languishing, pushcart, nomination, essay, personal essay, creative nonfiction, award, writing award