Dr. Samyak Shertok, Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing, has been honored with the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize 2023 and has also published several poems:
“A Blessing”: Poetry (Jan/Feb 2024)
“One Hundred and Eight Doors”: The Kenyon Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2024)
“Song in a Time of Revolution: A Ghazabun”: The Kenyon Review XLVI.1 (Winter 2024)
“X”: The Gettysburg Review 35.1 (Winter 2023)
“Breaching”: The Gettysburg Review 35.1 (Winter 2023)
“Himalayan Icarus: A Ghazanellet”: The Gettysburg Review 35.1 (Winter 2023)
“Love in a Time of Revolution”: Best New Poets 2023, Guest Ed: Anna Journey; Series Ed: Jeb Livingood (forthcoming)
“The Last Beekeeper”: The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, Eds. Ann Fisher-Wirth, Laura-Gray Street, Trinity University Press, 2025 (forthcoming)
“A Brief History of Hunger”: The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II, Eds. Ann Fisher-Wirth, Laura Gray Street, Trinity University Press, 2025 (forthcoming)
“Mother Tongue: A Haunting”: Southern Humanities Review 56.3 (Fall 2023)