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Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

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    About Shelli Rottschafer

    Shelli Rottschafer completed her doctorate from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque  in Latin American Contemporary Literature (2005). From 2006 until 2023 Rottschafer taught at a small liberal arts college in Grand Rapids, Michigan as a Professor of Spanish. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from Western Colorado University (2025).


    Shelli’s home state is Michigan, yet her wanderlust turns her gaze toward her new querencia within the Mountain West where she lives, loves, and writes in Louisville, Colorado and El Prado, Nuevo México with her partner, photographer Daniel Combs and their Pyrenees-Border Collie Rescue. 

    Welcome to Shelli Rottschafer's Most Current Poetry

    Forthcoming Poetry

    Poems: “This soul is not mine to give,” “Body in Parts,” “Fata Morgana,” “The Stanley,” and “Star-Dusted: An Oracle Poem”    Summer 2026

    Dancing Girl Press: “Dangerous Terrain” Antholog

    Editor Kristy Bowen https://dancinggirlpressandstudio.com


    Poems: “The Fishing” and “A Brief History of a River”      Summer 2026

    Camp Hiawatha: A Literary Journal ~ Words for the Wild – Print Journal Contest https://vilasavenue.com/camphiawatha/   

    Recently Published Poems

    Poem: “Taoseño Hummingbird” (Representing Earth Day April 22)  August 2026

    Casa Urraca Press. Abiquiu, NM. https://casaurracapress.com/anthology

    A themed anthology representing each day of the year.

    https://casaurracapress.com/bookstore/p/year-of-new-mexico-poetry-anthology


    Sestinas: “Silence is a Prayerful Sound” & “Legend has it”   July 26, 2026

    Bilingual Poem: “Un mensaje de la diosa / A Message from Mother Earth” 

    Gathered in the anthology Doves Born of Flames by Editor and Monterey California Poet Laureate Marie Boucher.


    Poem: “This Cradle Rests Empty”    July 8, 2026

    The Meadow: Literary and Arts Journal https://www.tmcc.edu/meadow     

    Editor and Poetry Lead-Editor: Lindsay Wilson

    https://sites.tmcc.edu/flipbook/meadow/2026


    Poem: “El Nogal Trail”   June 26,  2026

    Water Tower Press – The Avenue Journal. Baltimore, MD. Issue X: DOGS. 

    https://theavenuejournal.squarespace.com


    Poem: El ‘Burque’   May 31, 2026

    Prolific Pulse Press: https://www.prolificpulse.com

    “Unhoused: Yearning For Home” - Being Seen Anthology 2025


    Poem: "In Her Drowning"  May 28, 2026

    Milkweed Poetry Journal. Eds Madison Hoff and Wendy Insinger.

    ISBN: 979-8253546864

    https://www.amazon.com/Milkweed-Poetry-Journal-Madison-Hoff/dp/B0GXF3KZSS/ref=sr_1_1


    Poem: “October Wind: A Broken Sonnet”   May 10, 2026

    Four Tulips:  https://www.fourtulips.com

    Out at Sea Anthology -  Honorable Mention for the "Out at Sea" Contest

    https://www.fourtulips.com/archives/october-wind-a-broken-sonnet


    Poem: “Eyes Wide Open”   April 10, 2026  

    Screaming At America: An Anthology of Revolution. Editors: Joshua Robinson, Olivia Pearman, and Aspen Everett. Boulder, 2026.

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