Shavawn M. Berry is a writer of poetry, prose, essays, & stories, an empath, an elephant lover, a dendrophile, and a stargazer. She considers herself a curator and creator of beauty. The core themes of her writing are human connection, empathy, and healing [spiritually and physically].

She published her first collection of poetry, Evanescent Creature via Golden Dragonfly Press in March 2023.

Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Golden Dragonfly Press’s, Goddess; Sable Books’ anthology, Red Sky – Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women; The Urban Howl; Trickster Literary Journal; The Huffington Post (HuffPo 50); elephant journal; The Good Men Project; Rebelle Society; Be You Media Group; Olentangy Review; Journey of Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry; Black Fox Literary Magazine; The Cancer Poetry Project 2; Kinema Poetics; Kalliope; Poet Lore; California Quarterly; Westview – A Journal of Western Oklahoma; Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry; North Atlantic Review; Concho River Review; Synapse; Living Buddhism; Blue Mountain Arts/SPS; and Poetry Seattle, to name just a few.

She’s been writing about spirituality & healing & the divine feminine for more than forty years and has been a practicing Buddhist for the past 38 years.

In 1998, she received her Master of Professional Writing (MPW) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles where she specialized in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir.

In addition to her work as a writer, she is an award-winning teacher, teaching writing courses full-time at a university in the desert Southwest. She lives in Albuquerque, NM with six cats and one lovely old dog as her constant companions.