Q&A with Sheila Squillante
Penn State MFA Grad
Poet & Essayist

Students and faculty of all sorts welcome!

SHEILA SQUILLANTE is a writer and visual artist living in Pittsburgh and a graduate of Penn State’s MFA program in creative writing. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from Brick House Books, and Beautiful Nerve, as well as four chapbooks of poetry: Dear Sunder,  In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry and A Woman Traces the Shoreline. Her New and Selected is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in 2025.

Her debut essay collection, All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love and Food, was published by CLASH Books in November, 2023.

She directs and teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University. She is Executive Editor of The Fourth River, Chatham’s journal of nature and place-based writing, and Editor-at-Large for Barrelhouse Magazine.

(More here: https://sheilasquillante.com/)