Photograph by Sylvie Rosokoff
Shayne Terry's work has appeared in American Chordata, Catapult, Chicago Review of Books, CRAFT, Electric Literature, TriQuarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She has been selected for workshops and residencies at Bread Loaf, CRIT, Tin House, and the Vermont Studio Center, and her story The Rock Is Not a Rock was included as a distinguished story of 2024 in Best American Short Stories. Her first book, Leave: A Postpartum Account, will be published by Autofocus Books in 2025.
Born and raised in northern Illinois, Shayne received an M.A. in Literature from University College Dublin and lives in Brooklyn.
She is represented by Ashley Lopez of Waxman Literary.