sheena d. (she/they) is an nyc-based writer whose stories, essays, and doodles have received a center for fiction/susan kamil emerging writer fellowship, won the miriam chaikin prose award, made the longreads best of list, and decked the walls of the massillon museum.
in progress: a kinda unhinged campus novel about competition, sabotage, justice, and a queer black lady who moves to the wrong place—vermont.
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Big Mouth Mitchie, CRAFT Literary
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A Fortune Teller Worth Her Ball Should Refuse to Tell You When You're Going to Die, Passages North
On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun, Taco Bell Quarterly
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The Wanderer: A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont, The Delacorte Review
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The Numbers in My Phone, Autostraddle
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Woe is Angsty, Tired, Little You, Black Femme Collective
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If I Had Known Then That Casey and Rhian Were Both Terrible Pieces of Shit, Puberty Would Have Been Way More Fun, The Seventh Wave
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Fried Fish, The Hennepin Review
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Pushcart Prize Nominee
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The Best Small Fictions Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee
Visiting a Boy's Room, Split Lip Magazine
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The Best Small Fictions Anthology (Sonder Press), Nominee
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Wigleaf Longlist
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Republished in EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, Volume II
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A Series of Observations Regarding the Present Pandemic's Persistence, Zone 3 Press
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Wherein the Civil Court of State Sanctioned Companionship Considers a Petition, Emerge: Lambda Fellows Anthology
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Letting Lived Experience Matter, Perspectives of Educational Developers of Color
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Cancel Culture, Feminism, and Comedy: A Chat with Comedian Liz Miele, Ms.
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Writing to Cope: A Conversation with Debut Novelist Yaffa S. Santos, The Rumpus​
doodles
The Clutched Hen, COOP: Chickens of Our Poetry #10
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The Playbook, The Inventor, and The Champions, exhibited in Brown’s Town: Ohio’s Football Heritage, Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH
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late night searches, The Inquisitive Eater
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​prose awards & academic honors
Fellow, The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2024–2025 Emerging Writers Fellowship
Winner, Miriam Chaikin Prose Writing Award
Provost Diversity Fellow, Columbia University
Finalist, Richard J. Margolis Social-Justice Journalism Award
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competitive writing residencies
Juried Fellow, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
Artist in Residence, Bryn Du Mansion
Resident, St. Nell's Humor Writing Residency for Ladies
Editorial Resident, The Seventh Wave
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support for writing workshops & projects
Funding Recipient, Lambda Literary Emerging Fellows
Fiction Fellow, Kimbilio for Black Fiction
Summer Comedy Workshop Funding Recipient, Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation
Scholarship Recipient, Aspen Words, Personal Essay Workshop
Diversity Grantee, Delacorte Review, Columbia Journalism School
Scholarship Recipient, Hedgebrook, Radical Craft Retreat
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professional grants and scholarships
Scholarship Recipient, Dave Family Humor Studies, Association For Applied And Therapeutic Humor
Grantee, BKLYN Incubator, Brooklyn Public Library
Recipient, Donald H. Wulff Diversity Fellowship, Professional and Organizational Development in Higher Education Network Conference