EDUCATION
Creative Writing MFA (Fiction) candidate at University of Montana // 2021-2023
Writing & Literature BA at Naropa University (GPA: 3.9) // 2016
~PUBLICATIONS~
FULL-LENGTH POETRY COLLECTIONS
Horror Vacui, House of Vlad 2021
Cheap Yellow, Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018
PROSE
“Jeff! Bess!” SAD HAPPENS, ed. Brandon Stosuy (Simon & Schuster 2023)
“The Lunch Lady” Fence 2022
“The Palace” Southwest Review Volume 107.1 2022
“A Targeted Ad” Flaunt Magazine Issue 181 2022
“Clostromonia & Epsilon” X-R-A-Y Magazine 2022
“2AM in Brownsville” Hobart 2022
“Like Goldfish” Joyland Magazine 2021
“Self-Isolation Diary” Newest York 2020
“you haven’t written about me in years” NAILED Magazine 2016
“dear rowdy” ENTROPY 2015
POETRY
“MET Poem 3” Archways 1, ed. Chris Molnar (Archways Editions 2023)
“Three Poems” No Contact Mag 2022
“Three Poems” Forever Magazine 2022
“Four Poems” Hobart 2020
“DIAMONDS” [PANK] Magazine 2020
“Two Poems” Peach Magazine 2020
“Two Poems” The Nervous Breakdown 2018
“Three Poems” Wonder Magazine 2018
“Home for the Holidays” The Rumpus 2018
“Three Poems” New York Tyrant 2017
“A ROCK DID IT,” “outdoor patio,” & “housewarming party” Funhouse Magazine 2017 [PRINT]
“THREE POEMS” Potluck Magazine 2016
“wednesday,” “thursday,” & “friday” Spy Kids Review 2016 [PRINT]
“untitled” Queen Mob’s Tea House 2016
“what i knew first” Witch Craft Magazine 2016 [PRINT]
“WE TAKE TURNS IN BED DESPAIRING” alien mouth 2016 [PRINT]
“THREE POEMS” Hobart 2015
“spank me sideways” TAGVVERK 2015
“0:” INTERKORS 2015 [PRINT]
JOURNALISM
Several Interviews @ The Creative Independent 2021-current
“We Only Do What We Must” Southwest Review 2022
“Released from Suffering” BOMB 2021
“Time Is Money“ The Rumpus 2020
PRESS/INTERVIEWS/PODCASTS/REVIEWS
Another Fucking Writing Podcast (2023)
Skylit: Shy Watson: Horror Vacui (Skylight Books Podcast Series 2021)
Episode 60: Shy Watson on Horor Vacui (1storypod 2021)
Author Shy Watson On Writing What’s True to Your Experience by Elle Nash (The Creative Independent 2021)
Entitled to Feel Something Dark by Brad Casey (X-R-A-Y Magazine 2021)
Always in Flux: A Conversation with Shy Watson by Amy Saul-Zerby (The Rumpus 2021)
Jon Lemay Reviews Shy Watson (Barrelhouse 2021)
Episode 15: Shy Watson (Selected Prose Podcast 2021)
All Romance is Love but Not All Love is Romance by Catch Breath (Fanzine 2018)
A Conversation w/ Shy Watson and Bud Smith (Hobart 2018)
Mini-Interview Project #136: Shy Watson by Jackson Frons (The Rumpus 2018)
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Co-Founder & Editor at Blush Lit // January 2019-current
Publicity Intern at Wonder Press // August 2017-August 2018
Assistant Editor at The Rumpus // March 2017-January 2018
Poetry Editor & Writer at fields magazine // October 2014-October 2017
Prose Editor at Bombay Gin // Fall 2015
TEACHING
Introduction to Fiction Workshop // University of Montana 2022-2023
Contemporary Poets & Poetry: Online Workshop // Catapult 2021-2023
Writ 101: College-Level Writing // University of Montana 2021-2022
RESIDENCIES, NON-COLLEGIATE WORKSHOPS, ETC:
Monson Arts residency in Monson, Maine 2023
CRIT Works, fiction workshop led by Tony Tulathimutte 2020
Mors Tua Vita Mea, fiction residency led by Chelsea Hodson and Giancarlo DiTrapano 2019
Field School, poetry workshop led by Elaine Kahn 2019
Bud Smith’s workshop, untitled fiction workshop at Bud Smith’s house 2019
Cool Memories, poetry workshop led by Ben Fama 2018