A person with long brown hair and large dark-framed glasses smiles softly. They are wearing a white shirt, red jacket, and a chunky necklace. The lighting is warm, casting a cozy ambiance.

Sheila Squillante

Sheila Squillante is the author of the poetry collections, Mostly Human, winner of the 2020 Wicked Woman Book Prize from Brick House Books, and Beautiful Nerve, as well as four chapbooks of poetry. The Brightest Days: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in 2025. Her essay collection, All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love and Food, was published by CLASH Books in 2023. She directs the MFA program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh.