Kent Shaw's second book, Too Numerous, won the 2018 Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by University of Massachusetts Press. His work has appeared in New American Writing, jubilat, Ploughshares, Oversound, and others. He teaches at Wheaton College and blogs about poetry.
While at MacDowell in 2015, Shaw finished assembling the poems for his third manuscript of poems, then tentatively titled The Definitions of Lucky Are Too Numerous. During his 2024 residency, he worked on poems as well as a creative nonfiction piece exploring toxic masculinity while he served on board the USS Eisenhower.
