Shanan Ballam is the Poet Laureate for Logan City, Utah. She is the author of The Red Riding Hood Papers, Pretty Marrow, and Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems. She is a Senior Lecturer at Utah State University where she teaches poetry writing and composition. Her work has recently appeared in Crab Creek Review, North American Review, Quarter(ly), Sugar House Review, I-70 Review, Wordgathering, and Kaleidoscope. She survived a massive stroke in January 2022 that paralyzed the entire right side of her body. It also robbed her of her language. She never quit writing poetry, though, and she has written a new chapbook about her experience, first poems after the stroke.
