Shira Haus is a poet and fiction writer pursuing an MFA at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Identity Theory, HAD, and Honey Literary, among others. She has received support from the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and placed third in the 2024 Pinch Literary Awards for poetry. She works as an Associate Poetry Editor for Grist Journal, a reader for The Maine Review, and the Reading Series Coordinator for Sundress Publications.