2024 New Voices Fellows

Shannon Malloy is a neurodivergent, crip poet. She studied poetry at the College of Santa Fe and English Lit and Sociology at University of Denver, though after an accident where she was internally decapitated, a traumatic brain injury erased most of that education. She has been writing poetry for as long as she can remember, but after she regained some of her brain power post-injuries, shifted from love angst and depression based work to poetry that centers more around trauma—from sex, gender, and emotional trauma, to the trauma that causes and lives in a broken body. She has battled mental illness and addiction for much of her life. She has found writing as a way to process tragedy and answer, “Why me?” She believes poetry is her way to connect to and give a voice to other survivors, but also often to make others as uncomfortable as she is. She lives in Denver with her crazy pups, Gertie Stein and Fanny Howl. She comes with her own trigger warning.