Shanley Wells Rau

After spending 20 years in the oil industry, Shanley Wells-Rau earned her MFA in poetry at Oklahoma State University, where she served as an editorial assistant for Cimarron Review. Her poetry has been published in The Maine Review, Bluestem Magazine, and Poetry Quarterly, among others. She currently teaches composition and creative writing at Oklahoma State.

"CRUDE," and "WATERING MY SEDUM” featured in Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists