Author Bio | Shinelle L. Espaillat

Shinelle L. Espaillat is a writer whose work has appeared in midnight & indigo, Pleiades Magazine, Torch Literary Arts, Tahoma Literary Review, Two Hawks Quarterly, Minerva Rising, Ghost Parachute, among others, as well as in the collections Ghost Parachute: 105 Flash Fiction Stories, Shale: Extreme Fiction for Extreme Conditions, and How Higher Education Feels: Commentaries on Poems That Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching. Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, and she has been supported by Kimbilio and Baldwin for the Arts fellowships. She holds an M.A. in English-Creative Writing from Temple University. She teaches at Westchester Community College in NY.