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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

    Poem: El ‘Burque’  Spring 2026

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

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

    Recently Published Poems

    Poems: “El Nogal Trail at Sunrise” & “At Day’s Break: Sapphic Stanzas”  December 1 , 2025

    Notes of Light and Dark: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes. Sixth Edition.

    Editors David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman. Dos Gatos Press, 2025.


    Poem: If we are lucky: A Firefly Sestina  November 24, 2025

    Silver Birch Press: “Bugs & Insects” www.silverbirchpress.com

    https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/if-we-are-lucky-a-firefly-sestina-by-shelli-rottschafer-bugs-insects-series/


    Poem: Arachnid Haikus  Fall 2025

    Wingless Dreamer: Autumn Anthology “Pumpkin, Spice & Paper Cuts: Poetry”

    www.winglessdreamer.com


    Poem: Wake Up to the Wild Within   November 13 , 2025

    Four Corners Anthology 2025 https://www.fourcornerswriters.com  

    Poetry Editor: Sarah Carr, Fiction Editor: Chuck Greaves, Nonfiction Editor: Gail Binkly

    The Four Corners first anthology won the Anthology Category in the Colorado Book Award of the Humanities.  Like the first, the second includes Poetry, Short Story, and Nonfiction written by folks living within and expressing their love for Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.


    Poems: “The News of the Day” and “Latitudes & Longitudes: An Outtakes Poem”

    Morrow Point Magazine: “Hope and Uncertainty”  October 12, 2025  

    Editors Tali Himmel Rothstein and Isabel Grey https://morrowpoint.org/poetry/

    https://morrowpoint.org/2025/10/12/latitudes-longitudes/


    Poems: “Dent de Lion” and “Mother Mullein, She Grows”    September 19, 2025

    Chamisa: A Journal of Literary Performance, and Visual Arts in New Mexico and the Greater Southwest. UNM Digital Repository: Vol. 4, 2025.

    https://digitalrepository.unm.edu

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