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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: “Crow’s Nest and Raven’s Rest: A Golden Shovel”   Fall 2025

Poetics: Journal Bainbridge Island Press  https://bainbridgeisland.press

CORVID Issue. Fall 2025


Recently Published Poems

 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/

Recently Published Poems

Poems:  “With Eyes Wide Open” (27), “Metaphor-ay” (179), “Duende” (220)        June 26, 2025

Contributor Bio: (255) 

Canyon Voices Literary Magazine. New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Glendale: Arizona State University. Issue 31.              

https://issuu.com/asunewcollege/docs/canyon_voices_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”

https://tinyseedjournal.com/2025/04/20/manitou-passage/

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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