Department of English: Poetry Reading Samyak Shertok

Samyak Shertok's debut collection, "No Rhododendron" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Shenandoah, Best New Poets and elsewhere. Originally from Nepal, he is an assistant professor at Mississippi State University