About Sheila-Na-Gig Inc
Sheila-Na-Gig, the Los Angeles-based print journal, launched in 1990, when my co-founder Kristine Sanders and I were undergraduates at California State University, Long Beach. I went on to publish 14 volumes of the journal and three chapbooks through 2000. Sheila-Na-Gig featured over 400 poets nationwide and awarded over $2,000 in contest prizes. Los Angeles-based artist Charles Sherman donated the artwork for all of my print volumes. You’ll see some of these cover images on the website; just click the link in the captions to go to Charles’ website to see what he’s up to now.
My goal for Sheila-Na-Gig Inc. (a non-profit arts organization since 2023) is to continue to support the work of both established and emerging writers in a crisp, uncluttered space online and through the publication of individual collections and anthologies from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.
Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Founder & Editor-in-Chief
& Non-Profit Director
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sheila-Na-Gig online and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She has assisted with the following journals in various capacities: The Seattle Review, Quarter After Eight, Hotel Amerika, and The New Ohio Review. She is currently Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her poetry chapbook What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To appears from Finishing Line Press (2016), and her full-length collection Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light is from Main Street Rag Publishing Company (2018). Her chapbook The Blue Wife Poems is from Kelsay (2022). Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Slant, Spillway, Chiron Review, and many other journals in print and online. Her critical work appears in the anthologies The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror; The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror; and The Many Lives of It: Essays on the Stephen King Horror Franchise.
Barbara Sabol
Associate Poetry Editor
& Non-Profit Vice President
Barbara Sabol is the author of six poetry collections, the most recent a docu-lyric titled WATERMARK: Poems of the Johnstown Flood of 1889, published by Alternating Current Press in 2023. She won the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions poetry contest for her book, IMAGINE A TOWN in 2019, and the book SOLITARY SPIN was published by Main Street Rag Press in 2017.
Barbara went on to become the associate editor of the poetry journal, Sheila-Na-Gig online, and edited the anthology, SHARING THIS DELICATE BREAD: Selections from Sheila-Na-Gig online in 2022. Her writing encompasses both the traditional long-form poem and short-form Japanese poetry. Her chapbook, core and all: haiku and senryu was part of a collaborative collection with Larry Smith, titled CONNECTIONS, published by Bottom Dog Press in 2022. Barbara also authored two chapbooks: ORIGINAL RUSE, published by Accents Publishing in 2011, and THE DISTANCE BETWEEN BLUES, published by Finishing Line Press in 2012.
Barbara’s honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and her haibun have been recognized by the Haiku Society of America and short-listed for the 2024 Touchstone Award by the Haiku Foundation. Barbara was awarded the 2024 Outstanding Literary Artist by the Akron Downtown Partnership. She conducts poetry workshops for Literary Cleveland and the has partnered with the Cuyahoga Falls Library to create a Community Poetry Workshop series. She lives in Akron, Ohio with her artist husband and wonder dog.
Fiction Editor, John Bullock
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions is delighted to welcome John Bullock as editor of our new Short Fiction Anthology Series. John earned an MA in English from the University of Akron and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Virginia. He has a wide range of journal and editing experience, as a fiction writer, English professor, and editor of various literary, cultural, and medical publications. John was managing editor of New Ohio Review for eight years, responsible for content, layout, line editing, and proofreading, as well as overseeing all design, print, and distribution processes. His short stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Fifth Wednesday, Laurel Review, Prague Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and the anthology Open Windows III. His novel, Mark Small: This is Your Life, was published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2020.
