Samyak Shertok’s debut collection, "No Rhododendron" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Waxwing, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Samyak's work has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize.
Originally from Nepal, Shertok is an assistant professor of English at Mississippi State University.
Please join us in the Community Foundation Theater, located in Gund Gallery, on Tuesday, Dec. 2, at 4:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored with Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Kenyon Review and Kenyon Campus Community Development Fund.