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.
Shelly’s Favorite Books: Shelly’s Favorite Movies: Shelly’s Favorite Songs:
The Seven Citadels (Geraldine Harris) Shawshank Redemption Don’t Stop Believin (Journey)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo) The Matrix trilogy Kashmir (Led Zeppelin)
Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien) Max Don’t Break My Heart (黑豹)
Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Princess Bride Tai Shan (Rush)
The Homeward Bounders (Diana Wynne Jones) The Star Wars series Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
The Thursday Next series (Jasper Fforde) Ran (Japanese film) Come Together (The Beatles)
The Chronicles of Narnia (C. S. Lewis) High Fidelity Hymn to Her (The Pretenders)
Port in a Storm (George MacDonald) The Devil’s Advocate Cymbaline (Pink Floyd)
The Hitchhiker series (Douglas Adams) Shadowlands Harder to Breathe (Maroon 5)
The Foundation series (Isaac Asimov) The Fisher King Message in a Bottle (The Police)
Where to Find My Poetry
Collections
From Sam’s Dot Publishing —
Cyborg Chimera, a poetry collection
NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE GENRE MALL!
Due out Nov-Dec ’09 from decollection
Dark ‘til Dawn, a collection of 30 designer art pieces using
my haiku
Individual Poems
In Aoife’s Kiss
Herr Leibniz (Sept 2007)
Colonizers (June 2009)
Under Pressure (June 2009)
Fortunes Told (June 2009, also seen online)
In Bakery of the Poets
Screaming the Word (2007)
A Blessing (2007)
Project (March 2009)
Mr. Lincoln’s Program (June 2009)
Bargain Hunter (June 2009)
In Cover of Darkness (poetry anthology)
Night Falls (May 2009)
In Current Events newsletter
Dozer (March 2008)
Child’s Play (April 2008)
In Expressions newsletter
Our Universe Expands (June 2009)
Each Particle Contains the Whole (October 2009)
in early autumn (November 2009)
Dawn (June 2008)
In Season (December 2008)
Dreams of Elsewhere (March 2009)
In A Galaxy of Verse (not available online)
Trinity (2006)
Eggshell Carvings (2006)
Compatriots (2006)
Acrostic (2007)
Showdown (2007)
Electric Storm (2007)
In The Genesis Project
Cursed (2007)
In Eternity’s Eye (2007)
Under Foot (2007)
Upon Further Reflection (2008)
Visitation (2009)
Men of Renown (2009)
Bypassed (June 2009)
In Mirror Dance
Cave Drawings (Autumn 2009)
In Motel 58
Chicago, 1893 (March 2009)
In His Images (March 2009)
electrodes hooked up (April 2009)
Company (June 2008)
In Scifaikuest
Creature (Nov 2007, print)
Forty Winks (Aug 2008, online)
gray matter enshrined (Aug 2008, print)
Abandoned World (Aug 2008, print)
Featured Poet (November 2008) - 4 ‘ku, Rebound, Avatar,
Cryogenics, Automata, Fancy, Hatched, Suffrage, Enacted,
Congregated, Turning to Dust, and Garbage In, Garbage Out
Manipulated (May 2009, online)
In Space, Lost (May 2009, print)
always pleased to serve (May 2009, print)
gods who frighten us (August 2009)
Organic Emissary’s Fib (August 2009)
Hide and Seek (August 2009)
beneath icy plains (August 2009)
non-binary codes (August 2009, online)
Harvest Moon (November 2009)
Juno’s Itinerary (November 2009)
elderberry wine (November 2009, online)
In Sloth Jockey
Temenos (June 2008)
Enmity (June 2008)
Truth, Justice (June 2008)
Spectrophotoelectric (July 2008)
The City of Dis (July 2008)
Never Land (Aug 2008)
I (Sept 2008)
Affected (Sept 2008)
War Footage (Nov 2008)
Keep it in the Family (Jan 2009)
Pellinore’s Dive (Feb 2009)
Blowing Smoke (Apr 2009)
Faultlines (May 2009)
too quiet for thought (Aug 2009)
Pari (Sept 2009)
Notes on Scrap Paper (Oct 2009)
A to Z (Jan 2008)
Discarded (Jan 2008)
Rush Hour (Jan 2008)
mane proudly shaken (June 2009)
Collapse (Spring 2009)
Lights Turned Down (Summer 2009)
Reunion, the morning after
(Summer 2009)
In Writing Edge magazine
Looking Through (Spring 2006)
Landslide (Spring 2006)
Glassstorm (Spring 2006)
Real Life (Summer 2006)
Commissioned Work
Shanghai Singapore International School (preschool division)
Graduation Poem: “Stepping Out” (2008)
Graduation Poem: “Wonderful World” (2009)
Publications Due Out Soon
Poetry
October ’09 from Sam’s Dot Publishing
Cyborg Chimera, a poetry collection
NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE GENRE MALL!
Nov-Dec ’09 from decollection
Dark ‘til Dawn, a collection of 30 designer art pieces
using my haiku
Watch these journals:
A Note on Her Pillow (December 2009)
Natural Progression, excerpt (March ‘10)
When the Seeing is Good (Autumn 2009)
The Moon’s Affections (January 2010)
Amalgam
Earthrise
Expressions newsletter
Night Watch (December 2009)
Long Compton (Winter 2009)
The Day’s Work (Spring 2010)
To Memory You Are Called (Summer 2010)
Suicide Note (2009)
a bulleted list
Progress (February 2010)
Tidal (February 2010)
Primordial (May 2010)
Robotics (issue 8)
Upcoming Singapore Literary Journal
Babel City
For the Record
Gone
palming hollow skull
Check Up
Greater Light and Lesser
condemned cyborg king
a fiery end
Where to Find My Prose
Articles
Yong Shu Hoong, a voice for Singapore poetry
Publishing Poetry - How to Locate the Markets Where You
Can See Your Poems in Print
In Scifaikuest
The Threesome (May 2009, print)
The Lounge Singer
Short Fiction
In Sloth Jockey
Connection Established (Feb 2009)
Book Reviews
In Sloth Jockey
Ironic Silliness for Well-Read, Smart People (June 2008)
a review of Kafka on the Shore
Meticulous and Methodical (July 2008)
a review of The Devil in the White City
Genius: the Ability to Make Fun of Anything (Aug 2008)
a review of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Horror Story So Well-Written You Can Smell It
(Sept 2008) — a review of The Oath
A Story of Death (Oct 2008)
a review of The Book Thief
Some of 2007’s Best Creative Nonfiction (Nov 2008)
a review of The Best American Essays, 2007
Ahead of its Time (Jan 2009)
a review of R. U. R.
China’s Counterculture (Feb 2009)
a review of Playing for Thrills
Compelling Landscapes, Endearing Characters
(March 2009) — a review of The Return of No. 44
Meet Hasp Deadbolt, P. I. (March 2009)
a review of Nursery Rhyme Noir
Important Reflections for the Low-Cultured (April 2009)
a review of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
So That’s What Synergy Means (May 2009)
a review of Night Ship to Never
John F. Rooney’s Niche-Market Novels (July 2009)
a review of The Daemon in Our Dreams and
Last Passage to Santiago
Poetry of the Hard Sciences (September 2009)
a review of Quantum Lyrics
Shallow Treatment of Deep Issues (October 2009)
a review of The Rice Queen Spy
If you’d like to have your book reviewed at Sloth Jockey, you can contact me, or see the submission guidelines for details
