Shan Cawley

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Shan Cawley is currently a full-time English student at West Virginia University and a part-time poet. Cawley is the author of depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog and kingdom now, both published by Maudlin House Press. Much of Cawley's work primarily deals with the intricacies of growing up in an abusive household, and overcoming trauma through a literary lens. Cawley is also the recipient of the WVU NAACP's Image Awards Rising Mountaineer and the Jon Scott Nelson First Year Writing Award. Cawley hopes to pursue an MA in English literature, and then move towards a PhD specializing in the construction of gender narratives in 18th century British Romantic fiction.