About Me

 
 

About Shelly Bryant


I have spent my adult life living in Asia, most recently splitting time between Singapore and Shanghai.  The migrant’s life is a fun one, allowing me time to do the things I love — including reading, writing, cycling, traveling, and just generally enjoying life. 


I spend a good deal of time working on poetry, though the amount of time spent is perhaps not (yet) reflected in the quality of my work.  I am still, at this point, a better reader than writer.  I greatly enjoy doing both.

Where to Find My Writing

Poems

Due Out Oct ‘09 from Sams’ Dot Publishing:
    Cyborg Chimera, a collection of poems

Due Out Nov-Dec ‘09 from decollection:
    Dark ‘til Dawn, a series of art pieces 
    incorporating 35 of my haiku


In The Genesis Project
    Cursed (2007)
    In Eternity’s Eye (2007)
    Under Foot (2007)
    Upon Further Reflection (2008)
    Visitation (2009)
    Men of Renown (2009)


In Aoife’s Kiss
    Herr Leibniz (print Issue 22)
    Colonizers (June 2009)
    Under Pressure (June 2009)
    Fortunes Told (June 2009, also seen online)


In Cover of Darkness (an anthology)
    Night Falls (May 2009)


In Scifaikuest 
    Creature (November 2007 print edition)
    Forty Winks (August 2008 online edition)
    gray matter enshrined (August 2008 print edition)
    Abandoned World (August 2008 print edition)
    Featured Poet section in November 2008 (print),     
        including 4 ‘ku, and these poems in 
        other minimalist styles: “Rebound,” “Avatar,”
        “Cryogenics,” “Automata,” “Fancy,” “Hatched,”
        “Garbage In, Garbage Out,” “Suffrage,”
        “Enacted,” “Congregated,” and “Turning to
        Dust”
    Manipulation (May 2009, online edition)
    In Space, Lost (May 2009 print edition)
    always pleased to serve (May 2009 print edition)

    
In The Fifth Di...
    Dawn (June 2008)
    In Season (December 2008)
    Dreams of Elsewhere (March 2009)


In Sloth Jockey
    Temenos (June 2008)
    Enmity (June 2008)
    Truth, Justice (June 2008)
    Spectrophotoelectric (July 2008)
    Never Land (August 2008)
    The City of Dis (August 2008)
    I (September 2008)
    Affected (September 2008)
    Just Passing Through (November 2008)
    War Footage (November 2008)
    Keep it in the Family (January 2009)
    Pellinore’s Dive (February 2009)
    Blowing Smoke (April 2009)
    Faultlines (May 2009)


In Motel 58
    Chicago, 1893 (March 2009)
    In His Images (March 2009)


In The Martian Wave
    Bypassed (June 2009)


In The Taylor Trust
    Collapse (Spring 2009)


In Contemporary Haibun Online
   Project (March 2009)
   Mr. Lincoln’s Program  (June 2009)
   Bargain Hunter (June 2009)


In Not One of Us
    electrodes hooked up (Issue 41, April 2009)


In Astropoetica
    When the Seeing is Good (June 2009)


In Spaceports & Spidersilk
   mane proudly shaken (June 2009)

In Expressions Newsletter
    Our Universe Expands (July 2009)


In Current Events
    Dozer  (March 2008)
    Child’s Play (April 2008)


In Southern Ocean Review (Issue 46, Jan 2008):
    A to Z 
    Discarded 
    Rush Hour 


In The Bakery of the Poets
    Screaming the Word (2007)
    A Blessing (2007)


In The Pink Chameleon
    Company (June 2008)


In Writing Edge magazine
    Looking Through  (Spring 2006)
    Landslide  (Spring 2006)
    Glass Storm  (Spring 2006)
    Real Life  (Summer 2006)


In A Galaxy of Verse (not available online)
    Trinity (2006)
    Eggshell Carvings (2006)
    Compatriots (2006)
    Acrostic  (2007)
    Electric Storm (2007)
    Showdown  (2007)


Commissioned Work
    Graduation Poem:  “Stepping Out” 
        (2008, for Shanghai Singapore International 
        School, preschool division)
   Graduation Poem:  “Wonderful World” 
        (2009, for Shanghai Singapore International 
        School, preschool division)   



Due out soon

    Amalgam (in Kafla Inter-Continental)
    Earthrise (in Kafla Inter-Continental)
    Robotics (in The Shantytown Anomaly #8)
    Suicide Note (Motel 58, June 2009)
    Lights Turned Down (The Taylor Trust, 
            Summer 2009)
    Reunion, the morning after (The Taylor Trust, 
            Summer 2009)
    gods who frighten us (in Scifaikuest Aug 2009)
    Organic Emissary’s Fib (in Scifaikuest Aug 2009)
    Hide and Seek (in Scifaikuest Aug 2009)
    beneath icy plains (in Scifaikuest Aug 2009)
    non-binary codes (in Scifaikuest Aug ‘09, online)
    Cave Drawings (in Mirror Dance, Autumn ’09)
    a bulleted list (in Not One of Us)
    Harvest Moon in Scifaikuest (November 2009)
    Juno’s Itinerary in Scifaikuest (November 2009)
    elderberry wine in Scifaikuest (Nov ’09 online)
    A Note on Her Pillow (Aoife’s Kiss, Dec ‘09)
    Natural Progression, excerpt (Aoife’s Kiss, 
            March 2010)
    “Babel City,” “She Is Prose,” “In the Industrial 
        Park,” “palming hollow skull,” “Check Up,”     
        “Greater Light and Lesser,” “condemned 
        cyborg king,” and “a fiery end”   (upcoming 
        Singapore Literary Journal)



Awards

    Winner of the LaForge Award (2006) 
            for “Compatriots”
    Honorable Mention, the Marilyn Stacy Award (2006) 
            for “These Three Remain”

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Short Fiction

Connection Established (Sloth Jockey, Feb 2009)



Book Reviews

Ironic Silliness for Well-read, Smart People
    (a review of Kafka on the Shore, June 2008)
Meticulous and Methodical (a review of 
    The Devil in the White City, July 2008)
Genius:  The Ability to Make Fun of Anything
    (a review of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering
    Genius, August 2008)
A Horror Story so Well-Written You Can Smell It
    (a review of The Oath, September 2008)
A Story of Death (a review of The Book Thief, 
     October 2008)
Some of 2007’s Best Creative Nonfiction
    (a review of The Best American Essays 2007, 
     November 2008)
Ahead of its Time (a review of R.U.R. January ’09)
China’s Counterculture (a review of Wang Shuo’s 
    Playing for Thrills, February 2009)
Compelling Landscapes, Endearing Characters
    (a review of The Return of No. 44 by Bob Rogers
    March 2009)
Meet Hasp Deadbolt, P.I.  (a review of Nursery     
    Rhyme Noir, by David C. Kopaska-Merkel, 
    March 2009)
Important Reflections for the Low Cultured 
    (a review of Chuck Klosterman’s Sex, Drugs, 
    and Cocoa Puffs)
So That’s What Synergy Means (review of Night
    Ship to the Stars, by David C Kopaska-Merkel 
    and Kendall Evans)



Articles

Yong Shu Hoong, A Voice for Singaporean Poetry
The Lounge Singer
Publishing Poetry — How to Locate the Markets 
    Where You Can See Your Poems in Print
The Threesome (in Scifaikuest, May 2009)





My Blogs

    Shelly’s Blog
    Peregrine Online
    Tai Shan
    Showintale

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