About

Shelley Nation was the co-host of one of Chicago’s longest running poetry talk shows, Wordslingers, which aired on WLUW FM from Loyola University, from 1999 to 2009. She has been writing and performing poetry in the Chicago area since 1988, and has hosted several poetry venues over the years.  She has been published in many poetry journals including Wisconsin Review, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The RavenPerch, Copperfield Review Quarterly, among others. Shelley has been a teacher and counselor in Chicago for the past 28 years and holds two Masters Degrees in education.

Shelley is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and has recently begun to write about the experience of her grandmother and other members of her family as they lived through their struggles in Cherokee Nation territory, from  Tennessee and Alabama to the Canadian District in Indian Territory/Oklahoma.

 Some Authors Shelley Likes

Scott Momaday
Sharon Olds
Joy Harjo
Tom Robbins
John Updike
Louise Erdrich
Bebe Moore Campbell
Dorothy Allison
Flannery O’Connor
Alice Munro
Kate Chopin