About Harriet

Harriet Shenkman was born in Brooklyn. She is a Professor Emerita at City University of New York. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Women’s National Book Association, NYC where she moderates programs co-sponsored with the NYU Creative Writing Program. She won several poetry awards, including the Women’s National Book Association 2013 Annual Writing Contest in Poetry and the Women Who Write 2013 International Poetry and Short Prose Contest. She was a finalist for the Raynes Poetry Competition, 2014 and her poem appeared in Union, the Raynes Poetry Competition Anthology. Her poetry was published in Evening Street Review, Third Wednesday, Jewish Currents, Jewish Magazine, VerseWrights.com., When Women Awaken, Westchester Review. Oyez Review, The Pink Panther Magazine, The Alexandra Quarterly, The Comstock Review and in the 20th Edition of the Calliope Anthology. A former Poet-in-Residence at BoomerCafe and a current Poet-in-Residence of The Transition Network, she studied with poets Jennifer Franklin, Ellen Bass and Laura Kasischke. She read her poetry at the Hudson Valley Poetry Center, KGB Bar, Cornelia Street Café, The Arc Poetry and Art Festival, The JCC of Mid Westchester, The Watercooler Hub in Tarrytown, The Scarsdale Library and The Westchester Review Reading at Barnes and Noble. She has taped an online reading for Westchester Libraries. Her first poetry chapbook Teetering was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. Her second chapbook The Present Abandoned was published by Finishing Line Press, 2020. She is a multi-genre writer and is currently working on a Corona Collection of poetry as well as completing a novel.