Shuly Xóchitl Cawood teaches writing workshops, doodles with Sharpies and acrylic paint, and is raising two poodles and a dwindling number of orchids. Her books include Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough (Press 53, 2023) and Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press, 2021), winner of the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Sun, and Rattle.

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Shuly Xóchitl Cawood's website

"Poem in Which I Fail to Teach My Dog How to Fetch" at The Sun

Two Poems at Have Has Had

Interview and four poems at Does It Have Pockets

Video: Cawood reading her poem "You Are Not a Cat"