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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/   


    Poem: “This Cradle Rests Empty”    June 2026

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

    Editor and Poetry Lead-Editor: Lindsay Wilson


    Poem: El ‘Burque’   May 2026

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

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

    Recently Published Poems

    Poem: “El Nogal Trail”   Spring 2026

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

    https://theavenuejournal.squarespace.com


    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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