Published Writing
Press
Mandy Shunnarah Cannot Separate Love From Palestine — Electric Literature
“Exit Wounds”: Discussing the Trajectory of Mandy Shunnarah’s Poetry in We Had Mansions — Porter House Review
The Conditions We Choose: On Palestine, Love, and Accessibility with Mandy Shunnarah — Apogee Journal
Review of We Had Mansions by Mandy Shunnarah — Third Coast Magazine
Contributor Spotlight and Interview: Mandy Shunnarah — Crab Creek Review
Mandy Shunnarah’s debut poetry book shares truths about Palestinians — Matter News
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: We Had Mansions by Mandy Shunnarah — The Wardrobe, by Sundress Academy for the Arts
Answers With: Author, poet, essayist, and journalist Mandy Shunnarah — Answers In the Pages
Palestinian-American Poet Mandy Shunnarah talks about wishes, waffles, and WE HAD MANSIONS! — Tightwires Podcast
Mandy Shunnarah and We Had Mansions — proVERSE Podcast (high school student run!)
Forthcoming
a handful of poems in For Gaza, an anthology to raise money for those impacted by the genocide
Anthologies
Contributed the poem “if jesus was fat” to be reprinted in Haymarket Books’ Palestinian poetry anthology, Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, edited by Noor Hindi and George Abraham
Contributed the essay “Redneck Palestinian” to Ask the Night for a Dream: Palestinian Writing from the Diaspora from Palestine Writes Press
Contributed the poem “the damage has been done” to the Hajar Book of Rage from Hajar Press
Contributed the essay “Buckeye to All That” to The Columbus Anthology from Belt Publishing
Contributed the essay “Double Demoted” to Gifted-ish: Women and Nonbinary Writers on Intelligence, Identity and Education from McFarland Books
Contributed the short story “The Memory Store” to Through the Aftermath: An Apocalyptic Anthology
Poetry
our people had mansions published in Porter House Review
Winner of the 2024 Editor’s Prize in Poetry, judged by Kaveh Akbar
Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize
ode to cows & clitorises (finalist) and marriage, as the world burns (semifinalist) published in Crab Creek Review
One of three finalists in the 2024 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, judged by Kelli Russell Agodon
Hear me read “ode to cows & clitorises” in this video (32:00-minute mark)
mx. potato head at the gender swap meet published in Winning Writers
One of twelve honorable mentions in the 2025 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest
in arabic, the word for poppy is pieces and of cemeteries & chimney swifts published in Electric Literature
ekphrastic under a bombed-out sky published in Apogee Journal
if jesus was fat and hide and seek published in Electric Literature
ars poetica of partridges & palestine published in Palette Poetry
a square metre in palestine published in AGNI
everyone’s favorite palestinian published in Black Warrior Review
dreaming of a whole new world published in Southern Humanities Review (print only)
the miracle of loaves & fishes published in Phoebe Journal
ode to the hare published in Split This Rock’s The Quarry
Received a 2026 Best of the Net Nomination
the ritual complete and the naturalist published in The Dodge
Received a 2026 Orison Books's Best Spiritual Literature Anthology Nomination for “the ritual complete”
we love what we long for published in Channel Magazine (print only)
prayer ghazal published in Arc Poetry (print only)
standing barefoot on the bible published in Orca Literary Journal
the hookah published in beestung
Received a 2026 Best of the Net Nomination
they stop torching our cities long enough to pray and only an american published in Protean magazine
exit wounds and the rage of the diaspora published in New Orleans Review
the clamshell published in OSU’s The Journal
Received a 2024 Best of the Net Nomination
the damage has been done published in HOAX
small delights; my lover is left-handed; mary; the great falastini four poems published in Mud Season Review
self-portrait as a lamp between two countries and ode to dora maar published in Urban Arts Space’s Commune Journal
to the troubled houseguest of my once & future self published in Poetry Birmingham
a polycule in the multiverse; insurance for immortality published in the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival magazine, New Poetry from SASFest 2025
One of eleven finalists in the annual poetry contest
the ritual published in Zoetic Press/Nonbinary Review
let me make a home in you published in Sunlight Press
a train derails in ohio & they still won’t say the name of my country published in Yellow Arrow Journal
i hope you wake up to goodness published in Room (print only)
when they say palestinians don’t exist published in Justice for All Journal (print only)
meander scars published in Snarl Journal
cousin and on watching a video of palestinian teens dancing dabke published in Middleground
when i say fuck men published in Heavy Feather Review
marriage, as peaches rot on the counter published in Zoetic Press/Nonbinary Review/Heathentide Orphans
resting bitch face published in Strange Times Zine
Suite of Palestine poems in the art exhibit “Text Me When You Get Home” at Hopkins Hall Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, (June 2023) and Gazala Projects in Gettysburg, Ohio (July 2023)
Creative Nonfiction
Worshipping at Jerry Springer’s Daytime Altar published in Electric Literature
Grape Leaves published in The Rumpus
(video of me reading this essay live)
My Love Poems Are the Most Palestinian Thing About Me published in The Offing
Mohammed and Me published in Heavy Feather Review
Received a 2020 Best of the Net Nomination
Summoning Circle published in Lumiere Review
If You’re Dead, Let Me Know published in Entropy Magazine
Love and Labne published in The Other Side of Hope
Received a 2021 Best of the Net Nomination
Who Would I Be Without the Violence? published in Consequence Forum
Where Is The Old Country? published in Mizna (print only)
On Languishing published in OSU The Journal
Nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize
What Palestinian Writers Are Looking for from Lit Mags published in The Dodge
White Walls and Yellow Wallpaper published in Lifelines Magazine
Ink Love published in Talking Writing
The Last Summer published in Deep South Magazine
Winston Street. Birmingham, Alabama. published in Barely South Review
Smoke in the Water published in The Citron Review
Salted Wound published in The Citron Review
Received a 2017 Best of the Net Nomination
The Letter I Never Sent Harper Lee published in The Missing Slate (now defunct)
How Not to Wear Your Mother's Wedding Dress published in Entropy Magazine (now defunct)
Plucking Chin Hairs published in New Southerner magazine (now defunct) and reprinted in Doubleback Review
Honorable Mention in nonfiction category in New Southerner’s annual contest in 2016
(Hear me read an abridged version at New Southerner’s issue launch party.)
Fiction
The Memory Store published in Post Apocalyptic Media
Won 2nd Place in their annual short story contest in 2021
Come Get It published by Short Édition
Chosen as one of seventeen finalists for the national short story contest Money Chronicles: A Story Initiative. The story will be published and shared via Principal Foundation’s Short Story Dispensers located in New York City, Los Angeles, Charlotte (NC), Seattle, and Iowa City.
Holler General published in Exposition Review
How to Become the “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” published in The Normal School
Ghost Story published in The Wild Hunt
Received a 2020 Pushcart Prize Nomination
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