Sheila Black


Sheila Black, an American poet, has written over 40 books for children and young adults as well as four poetry collections. She was a 2000: U.S. co-winner of the Frost-Pellicer Frontera Prize, and a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellowship.

Life

She graduated from Barnard College and received her master's degree from the University of Montana.
. Teaching part-time at New Mexico State University and also working as Development Director for the Colonias Development Council, Sheila Black continues to write poetry, recently becoming co-editor of Beauty Is A Verb: The New Poetry of Disability with Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northen. Sheila Black was diagnosed with XLH, commonly referred to as Vitamin-D Resistant Rickets, at a young age. Black continues to advocate for equal rights for persons with disabilities. She has three children and lives with her husband in Texas.

Style

Confessional poetry

In her poems, Sheila Black writes in a confessional style, often referencing past conflicts that resulted from her diagnosis of XLH, such as in her poem What You Mourn. According to Sheila Black,

Reviews

Selected works

Poetry collections

House of Bone. CW Press. Poems.; Wordtech Communications, 2007, Love/Iraq. CW Press. Poems.; WordTech Communications, 2009, Wen Kroy,, Dream Horse Press, 2014, Iron/Ardent, Educe Press, 2017, Radium Dream, Salmon Poetry, 2022,

Poetry collections, collaborative

Continental Drift, with Michelle Marcoux. Patriothall, Edinburgh, UK. Poems, Paintings.

Poetry collections, co-editor

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Children's books