Faculty

Profile

Sheena Daree Romero is a humorist, doodler, and educational developer. With students and other faculty, she’s interested in creating collaborative learning spaces that embrace laughter, intellectual discomfort, experimentation, connection, and revision. On the page, some fixations she circles include queer black girlhood, diaspora, junk food, and dread. She’s currently writing a novel.

Degrees Held

• MFA, Creative Nonfiction, The New School
• MSSc, Higher Education Governance, University of Helsinki
• BA, Gender Studies and German, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University               

Professional Affiliation

• Scholars at Risk, Volunteer Proofreader   
• Split Lip Magazine, Flash Reader
• Critical Humor Studies Association, Member

Recent Publications

WORDS

• 'Big Mouth Mitchie,' Craft Literary 
• 'The Wanderer,' The Delacorte Review, Longreads Best of: Readers' Favorite
• 'On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun,' Taco Bell Quarterly 
• 'Visiting a Boy’s Room,' Split Lip Magazine, Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist mention, republished in EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, Volume II

IMAGES

• 'easy to care for' and 'dancing, drinking, dying,' Color into Focus: Queer + Trans Collage 
• 'The Clutched Hen,' Coop Zine
• 'late night searches,' The Inquisitive Eater 

Performances and Appearances

Visual Art in Group Exhibits

• The Black Madonna, Urban Arts Space, forthcoming, Columbus, OH
• Brown's Town, Massillion Museum, Massillion, OH

Research Interests

humor, diaspora, collage, dolls, the essay

Awards And Honors

• Grantee, The Center for Fiction Emergining Writer Fellowship
• Juried Fellow, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
• Prose Awardee, Miriam Chaikin Writing Award
• Artist in Residence, Bryn Du Mansion
• Grantee, BKLYN Incubator, Brooklyn Public Library

Portfolio

bookofsheena.com