Shannan Mann is the Creative Director of ONLY POEMS and Strange Pilgrims. Her upcoming poetry collection God Has Nothing To Do With This was a finalist for the Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Awarded the Emily Morrison Short Story Award, Irene Adler Essay Prize, and Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize, she’s also placed for the Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize, and the Foster Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Missouri Review, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, & elsewhere. She also runs Sub Club.

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From M.A. to M.F.A. to PhD in Creative Writing

Shannan Mann ⟡ Lit mags as career builders & literary citizenship

The Purpose of the Statement of Purpose

Shannan Mann ⟡ MFA guidance

Aiming Beyond the Tenure-Track

Shannan Mann interviews Matthew Vollmer ⟡ Fate & future of the creative degreeer

10 Summer Poems

Shannan Mann ⟡ Sticky & sweet

Love Poems in Translation: How to Love in Sanskrit

Shannan Mann ⟡ Conversation with Anusha Rao & Suhas Mahesh

Top 5 Low-Residency M.F.A. Programs That Aren't Just for Uppity 20-Somethings

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