Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is the author of several books, including A Small Thing to Want: Stories (Press 53), the poetry collection Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning, winner of the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry (Mercer University Press), and the flash essay collection What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said, winner of the Iron Horse Literary Review Prose Chapbook Competition (Texas Tech University Press). Originally from Ohio, Shuly currently lives in East Tennessee. She has an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte, and she loves leading writing workshops, hiking in the woods, and eating dark chocolate. Learn more about her at shulycawood.com
