Shoshana Surek’s short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and poetry appear or are forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Rising Phoenix Press, Obelus Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Burningword Literary Review, Carve Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Vestal Review, 3 Elements Review, Inverted Syntax, The Night Heron Barks, Cease, Cows, and f(r)iction Magazine. Her story, “Masking Tape Over My Fortunate One,” was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize and her poem "Green" was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. She is a 2019 Finalist in december Magazine's Curt Johnson's Prose Awards. Her Young Adult manuscript, Mississippi Sun Dog, won Third Place in the YA Vonage Literary Journal First Chapter's Contest in July 2021. Publication is forthcoming.
As a first-generation American and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, she enjoys reading voices expressing the connections between past and present when everything -and so little- has changed. Shoshana studied Literature in England and earned both her MA and MFA Creative Writing in Poetry and Fiction from Regis University in Denver. She was a two-time finalist in HBO Comedy Arts Open and a finalist in the Miller Heavyweight Comedy Championships. She was a first-reader for Vestal Review and Inverted Syntax.
Follow her on Twitter at @shoshana_surek. A list of her published works is forthcoming.
How to contact me: leave various cryptic clues in the text of your next published book, story, or poem. Spread the message over many years and reprints. Alternately, you could email. Your choice.