Shelli Rottschafer

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Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

Writer, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & EducatorWriter, Poet, Wanderer, & Educator

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    About Shelli Rottschafer

    Shelli Rottschafer completed her doctorate from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque  in Latin American Contemporary Literature (2005). From 2006 until 2023 Rottschafer taught at a small liberal arts college in Grand Rapids, Michigan as a Professor of Spanish. She also holds an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry from Western Colorado University (2025).


    Shelli’s home state is Michigan, yet her wanderlust turns her gaze toward her new querencia within the Mountain West where she lives, loves, and writes in Louisville, Colorado and El Prado, Nuevo México with her partner, photographer Daniel Combs and their Pyrenees-Border Collie Rescue. 

    Forthcoming Poetry

    Poem: Knowing   Summer 2027

    The Meadow Literary and Arts Journal https://www.tmcc.edu/meadow     

    Editor and Poetry Lead-Editor: Lindsay Wilson


    Poem: Haiku  December 2026

    Zephyr: A Haiku Joint – Anthology Editor: Bryan Roth

    I trade these whispers

    for a heart seeking ease.

    What refuge keeps us?


    Poems: “This soul is not mine to give,” “Body in Parts,” “Fata Morgana,” “The Stanley,” and “Star-Dusted: An Oracle Poem”    Summer 2026

    Dancing Girl Press: “Dangerous Terrain” Antholog

    Editor Kristy Bowen https://dancinggirlpressandstudio.com

    Chapbooks

    Eco-Poetry Chapbook: Sorrel Summer Sky: Earth Poems    January 22, 2027

    Finishing Line Press. Georgetown, KY. Eds. Mimi David, Kevin Maines, Leah Huete de Maines, and Christen Kincaid.

    https://finishinglinepress.com/product/sorrel-summer-sky-by-shelli-rottschafer/


    Hypbrid-Chapbook: “Nuestros antepasados y la nueva generación en SW Michigan

    Querencia in the Latinx Midwest: Photography and Ethno-poetics.”

    SwEP: Swimming with Elephants Publications Albuquerque, NM  April 2020

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54342998-nuestros-antepasados-y-la-nueva-generaci-n-en-sw-michigan


    Hybrid-Chapbook: La Diáspora de un Atzlán norteño: MiChicanidad Creativity as Witnessed in Bilingual Ethno-Poetry and Photography

    SwEP: Swimming with Elephants Publications Albuquerque, NM    December 2018

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