Author

Shea, Cathryn

Poet in Fairfax, California. Author of Genealogy Lesson for the Laity (Unsolicited Press, 2020) and Ghost Matinee (Unsolicited Press, 2025). A Best of the Net nominee, she served as editor for the Marin Poetry Center Anthology.

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Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Interviews

Cathryn Shea on the Particular, Memory, and the Social Life of Things contemporary

Aleksey Porvin October 2, 2026

Aleksey Porvin talks with Cathryn Shea about the particular as a way of knowing, the ghost of memory, and whether a poem can make the social life of ordinary things visible.

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Poetry

Tale of Pearl-Grain Rice and Other Poems contemporary

Cathryn Shea September 9, 2026

Five poems: Tale of Pearl-Grain Rice, Rescuing a Brother-in-Law, Picture This, No Ethnic Identity, and Deflation.

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