Sheila Squillante

SHEILA SQUILLANTE is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from Brick House Books, and Beautiful Nerve, as well as four chapbooks of poetry. The Brightest Days: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in 2025. Her debut essay collection, All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love and Food, was published by CLASH Books in November, 2023. She is also co-author, along with Sandra L. Faulkner, of the writing craft book, Writing the Personal: Getting Your Stories Onto the Page. She directs and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University. She is executive editor of The Fourth River, Chatham’s journal of nature and place-based writing, and editor-at-large for Barrelhouse Magazine. She lives with her family in the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh.