Shirley Stephenson, Blackbird

POETRY

Sherman Alexie
M.L. Brown
Christopher Burawa
Kevin Cantwell
A.V. Christie
Peter Cooley
Lisa Fay Coutley
Julie Danho
Chard deNiord
Leah Dunham
Katie Ford
Jennifer H. Fortin
Danielle Hanson
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Larry Levis
Sandy Longhorn
Dawn Lonsinger
Darren Morris
Elisabeth Murawski
Rodney Nelson
William Olsen
Alison Pelegrin
Paisley Rekdal
Catie Rosemurgy
Maureen Seaton
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Peter Jay Shippy
R.T. Smith
Sofia M. Starnes
Shirley Stephenson
Gerald Stern
Laura Van Prooyen
Katrina Vandenberg
Ron Winkler
Carolyne Wright
Jake Adam York

SHIRLEY STEPHENSON

   Disabled Odyssey
   Practice
   Tidal Volume

Shirley Stephenson is an ER nurse in Chicago, Illinois. She previously worked in international health care, living outside of the United States. She is a 2005 Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award recipient. Her poems have appeared recently in The Southern Review and DIAGRAM, and work is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review.