Originally from the South, Shelby Dale DeWeese currently lives and writes in California, where she is pursuing her MFA in Writing with an emphasis in Poetry at the University of San Francisco.

Shelby is a poetry reader for Teen Ink Magazine. She has worked as a poetry reader and Instagram curator for Switchback, and during her undergrad career at the University of Southern California she co-founded Fractal Literary Magazine and served as the chief copy editor of The Daily Trojan.

She is currently a Programs Coordinator at 826 Valencia and a podcast transcriber for MuggleNet. Previously, she has interned for Gold Line Press and 826LA, and been a writing and leadership instructor for Education Unlimited/Camp Brainy Bunch.  She has also taught poetry workshops in Los Angeles and in Lörrach, Germany as part of a collaborative project between USC and Freies Theater Tempus Fugit.

Her poems have been published in Quaint Magazine, Rust + Moth, and elsewhere.

Shelby Dale DeWeese primarily self-identifies as a poet, a sister, and a friend.