Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Mandy Shunnarah

Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama Lives in: Columbus, Ohio

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  • Email: mandyshunnarah@gmail.com

Address:

    • Columbus, Ohio
      United States
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About Mandy Shunnarah

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, Remote

Bio: Mandy Shunnarah (they/them) is an Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer in Columbus, Ohio. Their essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and others. They won the Porter House Review 2024 Editor’s Prize in Poetry and are supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Their first book, Midwest Shreds: Skating Through America’s Heartland, was released in 2024 …Read More from Belt Publishing, and their second book, a poetry collection titled We Had Mansions, was published by Diode Editions in 2025. Read more at mandyshunnarah.com.

Works: Books:
We Had Mansions: Poems – Diode Editions, 2025
Midwest Shreds: Skating Through America’s Heartland – Belt Publishing, 2024
Creative Nonfiction
‘Grandmother, Where’d You Get So Smart?’ ‘Living, Baby. Living.’ published in the Solver Stories …Read More column in the New York Times
Worshipping at Jerry Springer’s Daytime Altar published in Electric Literature
Grape Leaves published in The Rumpus
My Love Poems Are the Most Palestinian Thing About Me published in The Offing
Mohammed and Me published in Heavy Feather Review
Summoning Circle published in Lumiere Review
If You’re Dead, Let Me Know published in Entropy Magazine
Love and Labne published in The Other Side of Hope
Where Is The Old Country? published in Mizna
On Languishing published in OSU The Journal
The Last Summer published in Deep South Magazine
Winston Street. Birmingham, Alabama. published in Barely South Review
There’s also poetry and fiction; limited by the character count

Awards:

2024 Porter House Review annual poetry contest
2024 Microgrant and Residency for Palestinian Writers from Sundress Academy for the Arts
Individual Excellence Award in Poetry from the Ohio Arts Council

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