Jacquelyn Shah

Jacquelyn "Jacsun" Shah is drawn to the offbeat, the zany, the quirky, and loves absurdist and surrealist poetry. Founding member of Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB), a literary arts organization in Houston, TX, she has taught creative writing through Writers In The Schools and at the University of Houston, where she completed both M.F.A. (creative writing) and Ph.D. (creative writing and English literature). Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies, such as Cranky, Margie, Tar River Poetry, The Texas Review, Anon (Britain), RHINO, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal (Australia). A poetry chapbook small fry has just been published by Finishing Line Press and she has a full-length poetry book, What to Do with Red, forthcoming.