About
Sheree is an award-winning Author, Producer, and Social Media Strategist. She holds an MFA in Critical Studies & Writing from California Institute of the Arts and has published articles/fiction/books on a myriad of topics. In addition, Sheree has over 30 years experience in the charitable non-profit sector, working as a social scientist, synthesizer, and wordsmith.
In 2012, Sheree traveled to Ghana, Africa to meet with a child trafficking survivor. Changed by the experience, she spent the next two years writing about his journey. Passionate about women and the rights of the child, Sheree wants to reach out and inspire the voiceless.
Featured Work
The Politics of Love (Ghost City Press)
My Micro-Chapbook 'The Politic of Love' examines the cyclic nature of identity, love, loss, and rebirth. When I started these poems, I was grieving the loss of my youngest daughter through estrangement, some months later I lost her father in a plane crash. Soon after my oldest children followed suit and cut me out of their lives. I had grief, piled on top of grief. Their father had been my bridge. He’d been in my life since I was a teenager. Now he was lost and I had to rebuild somehow. I felt as though I had lost my identity. Who was I? Mother (not), Wife (not). I had been effectively silenced, which for someone who had spent their lifetime tending to words is terrifying. What is there when there is nothing? Life closes in around us.
Other Works
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"Broken: Do Not Use." Main Street Rag Publishing Company,
2021
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“Active Shooter,” Pidgeonholes: Fearless Literature.
2020
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“Old White Men & A Skirt Too Far Above The Knees,” The Rumpus.
2020
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“As Sea Levels Rise and Fall,” “Daughter: the sin that lives on my tongue,” “Anatomy of Melancholy,” “Lessons from an Ordinary Life,” The North Dakota Review.
2020
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“A California Love Song,” Raven Chronicles: Take a Stand: Art Against Hate Anthology.
2020
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“all that we love,” orderlands: Texas Poetry Review – Issue 51.
2020
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“Oliva Jade Won’t Return To USC,” Sheila Na Gig
2020
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“Learning To Swim,” Red Coyote, The Vermillion Literary Project (VLP) – University of South Dakota
2020
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“The Transitory Nature of Happiness,” Soliloquies Anthology, Concordia University – Montreal.
2020
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“The Moment of Separation,” Ovunque Siamo.
2020
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“Which Country Should We Bomb Today,” Into The Void Journal
2020
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“the sacred and the unfamiliar,” “The Year Without Meaning,” and “A Clear And Present Danger,” William and Mary Review
2020
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“The Dark In Me: Tiny Window,” War, Literature & the Arts: an international journal of the humanities.
2020
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"The Politics of Love & Other Invisible Structures" WSQ: Inheritance Issue (Feminist Press at CUNY )
2020
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“Equanimity/Lost,” The American Journal of Poetry
2020
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“A Predator,” Feminism & Religion
2019
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“So It Goes,” The London Reader
2019
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“place of death: field.” Plainsongs -Hastings CollegePress, Summer Edition.
2019
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“Scent-i-mental Over You.” VIA: Voices in Italian Americana 30.1, celebrating 30 years of VIA and Bordighera Press.
2019
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“Milk Bomb.” Burningword Literary Journal, July 5th Issue 91.
2019
Awards and Recognition
- 2020 – Nominated for Best of The Net “Self-Portrait As A Mourning Dove,” Poetry, South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo), Feb Issue.
- 2020 – “When Dreams Betray,” Poetry Contest Finalist, River Heron Review.
- 2020 - “The Ghost of Mother,” “Little Bird,” “When Talking With An Ex-Husband Who Has Died.” Poetry, The Raw Art Review – Finalist in The Doug Draime Prize for Poetry.
- 2020 – “A Mother With Signs of Dementia,” “I Dream of Summer With My Dead Daughter,” Poetry, Finalists in the 2020 American Writers Review Contest.
- 2020 – Full-Length Book of Poetry, Lessons From An Ordinary Life, Semi-Finalist – Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize.
- 2019 – Full-Length Book of Poetry, Naked With The Fan Running, Finalist – The Hillary Gravendyk Prize from Inlandia Institute
- 2019 - “The Pumpkin Patch,” Fiction, Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, Contest Winner. Online & Anthology.
- 2017 – “Breaking Apart”, Essay, ESME’s Annual Showcase Awards, 2nd Place.
- RAY BRADBURY FELLOWSHIP for fiction. Double finalist for two different short stories in 2002.
- New Century Writer Award
