I’m Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, and I’ve written a few books, including:

• The poetry collection, Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough (Press 53)

• The flash essay collection, What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said, winner of the 2022 Iron Horse Literary Review Prose Chapbook Competition.

• The short story collection, A Small Thing to Want (Press 53), winner of the 2021 Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Short Fiction

• The poetry collection, Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press), winner of the 2019 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry

• The little advice book, 52 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself When I Was 17 (Cimarron Books)

• And the memoir, The Going and Goodbye, (Platypus Press).

I have an MFA in creative writing from Queens University and an MA in journalism from The Ohio State University. I write columns for the Johnson City Press.

My creative writing has appeared in places such as The New York Times, The Sun, Rattle, and Brevity, among others, and my work has been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. Find all my books here.

I also teach writing workshops (which I love love love doing). Learn about my classes here.

You can email me at: shulycawood [at] gmail [dot] com.