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.
Poem: “Crow’s Nest and Raven’s Rest: A Golden Shovel” Fall 2025
Poetics: Journal Bainbridge Island Press https://bainbridgeisland.press
CORVID Issue. Fall 2025
Poems: “Toward New Country,” “Channeling Acequia Madre,”
& “Sialia Mexicana – Mountain Bluebird” July 15, 2025
https://deepwildjournal.com/2025/07/15/walk-these-rivered-hills
Awarded Honorable Mention in Deep Wild Journal’s 2025 Student Contest:
“Waking to the Wild”. Judges Chelsea Catherine & John Nizalowski. Director Rick Kempa
https://deepwildjournal.com/2025/04/23/our-2025-student-writing-contest-winners/
Poems: “With Eyes Wide Open” (27), “Metaphor-ay” (179), “Duende” (220) June 26, 2025
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Canyon Voices Literary Magazine. New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Glendale: Arizona State University. Issue 31.
Poem: “Moth Clutched Loosely” May 31, 2025
“Superstition/Divination.” Tiny Spoon: An experimental Literary Magazine. Issue 13. Boulder: Colorado, 2025. (Pp 90) www.TinySpoon.org
“Moth Clutched Loosely” can be heard on: https://www.radarpoetry.com/the-waiting
After Maya Jewel Zeller's Poem "The Waiting."
Poem: “Manitou Passage” April 20, 2025
Tiny Seed Literary Journal: You Plant the Seed, We Help it Grow Project:
“The Beauty of Water’s Depth”
Bilingual Poem: “Bodega on Bagley” March 26, 2025
One of Twenty Finalists for the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize Judged by dg nanouk okpik December 30, 2023. Published in “Taking Liberties”. Cutthroat: Journal of the Arts. Issue #29. Tucson, 2025. Pp. 154-157. www.cutthroatmag.com
Poem: “Hen & Buck” March 15, 2025
Mountain Blue Bird Magazine and Press Issue #7. Editor Jenny Forrester
https://jennyforrester.com/mountain-bluebird-magazine-press/.
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