Raena Shirali is the author of two collections of poetry. Her first book, GILT, was released by YesYes Books in 2017 and won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award. Published by Black Lawrence Press in October 2022, her second book, summonings, won the 2021 Hudson Prize and was shortlisted for the 2022 Julie Suk Award. Winner of a Pushcart Prize & a former Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University, Shirali is also the recipient of prizes and honors from VIDA, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, & Cosmonauts Avenue. Her work has appeared in carte blanche, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, The Nation, The Rumpus, & elsewhere. She co-organized the We (Too) Are Philly festival in 2018, as well as Holy Family University’s Distinguished Writers Series from 2019 to 2024. Formerly Co-Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine and a Faculty Advisor for Folio, Shirali now serves as a Contributing Editor for swamp pink.  She holds an MFA in Poetry from The Ohio State University and lives in Philadelphia.