Originally from Chicago, Rone Shavers is Associate Professor of English at The University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He is also fiction and hybrid genre editor at the award-winning journal, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. He holds a BA in Literatures and Languages from Bennington College, an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In spring of 2024, Shavers served a one-semester appointment as the McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College, and he has previously taught creative writing at The College of Saint Rose, the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf, and Northwestern University.
Shavers writes in multiple literary genres and his shorter critical and creative works have appeared in numerous journals, reviews, and academic publications. Additionally, he is the author of Ten Crônicas (The Magnificent Field, 2021), a chapbook collection of prose poems; and the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish (Clash Books, 2020), which was a finalist for the 2021 Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award in Fiction, a Big Other Book Award, and one of The Brooklyn Rail’s “Best Books of 2020.” His other honors include a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers and Mentoring Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, a Nancy B. Negley Writer-in-Residence fellowship at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France, and an Arthur T. Schwab Poet-in-Residence fellowship at MacDowell.
Shavers has also received artist-in-residence fellowships to the Loghaven Artist Residency, Siena Art Institute, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and several other locales. He lives in Salt Lake City.
Works
from Silverfish
Four Crônicas
Bibliography
Ten Crônicas (The Magnificent Field, 2021)
Silverfish (Clash Books, 2020)
