Shannon Hearn is a poet and teacher in New York whose work has appeared with Bruiser, cream city review, Creative Writing Department, Fugue, Ghost City Press, Voicemail Poems, and others. Her poem “WHAT MARRIAGE IS / TENDER CARE” was an Academy of American Poets Prize honorable mention, selected by Leah Umansky. They are a PhD student at Binghamton University and author of the chapbooks tracing circles in dirt (Bottlecap Press, 2021) and Paranoid citi (Tabloid Press, 2025).