Shayne Terry

Shayne Terry's fiction has appeared in American Chordata, Catapult, CRAFT, TriQuarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.

She has been selected for workshops and residencies at Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Vermont Studio Center, was named an honorable mention for the 2021 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship, and was a finalist for Mason Jar Press’s 1729 Book Prize in Prose.

Leave: A Postpartum Account will be published by Autofocus Books in 2025.

Born and raised in northern Illinois, Shayne received an M.A. in Literature from University College Dublin and lives in Brooklyn.

She is represented by Ashley Lopez at Waxman Literary.