Samyak Shertok

Samyak Shertok (he/him) is the author of No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), selected for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems have been published in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Best New Poets 2023 (University of Virginia Press, 2023), and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, an Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and a Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has been awarded a Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, a Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and an Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, Shertok was an inaugural Hughes Fellow in Creative Writing at Southern Methodist University and is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Hendrix College.