Shanti Weiland

Short Biography

Shanti Weiland’s Sister Nun was the 2015 winner of the Negative Capability Press Book Competition. Weiland received her BA in English from the University of California, Davis and later moved to the desert, pursuing a creative writing MA at Northern Arizona University. She then traveled to the humid and friendly south, where she earned a PhD in poetry from the University of Southern Mississippi. She teaches writing and literature at the University of Alabama and lives in Birmingham with her partner and a menagerie of pets.