Cathryn Shea's second full-length poetry book will be published by Unsolicited Press in 2025. More information to follow. Her first full-length poetry book "Genealogy Lesson for the Laity," is available from Unsolicited Press of Portland, Oregon. Find her reading on YouTube under “Poetry Reading with Walt Whitman Birthplace Interpretive Center.” She has been featured on Women's Voices for Change (NYC). Cathryn Shea’s poetry has been widely published and was nominated for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net. Cathryn's fourth chapbook, "Backpack Full of Leaves," was published by Cyberwit.net in 2019 and her third chapbook, "The Secrets Hidden in a Pear Tree" was published by dancing girl press in 2019. Her second chapbook, "It's Raining Lullabies" is also from dancing girl press (November 2017). Cathryn's poetry has appeared recently in New Orleans Review (web feature), Typishly, After the Pause, burntdistrict, Permafrost, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere.