Shana Monica Ferrell (born November 8, 1975) is an American poet and fiction writer.
[1] In 2007, she was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for her debut book of poems, Beasts for the Chase.
[12] Ferrell was born in New Delhi, India to a Punjabi mother and an American father.
[14] Currently, she is the Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College (SUNY).
[18] Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Baffler, Black Clock, Fence, Gulf Coast, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and The Yale Review, and in anthologies such as Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (Penguin India).