Felicity Sheehy is a poet from the Hudson Valley of New York.
Her chapbook Losing the Farm (2021) won the Munster Literature Centre's international chapbook prize.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Irish Times, The Yale Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, P.N. Review, The Adroit Journal, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, Blackbird, The Common, Literary Matters, and elsewhere.
She has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Jane Martin Prize, and support from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Banff Centre, the Community of Writers, the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, the Hudson Valley Writers Center, the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the Kenyon Review Writer's Workshop.
She has received additional prizes from Narrative Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine, the York Poetry Prize, the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Poetry Society of Virginia, and Yale University, among others.
In 2019 and 2020, she was listed as one of Narrative Magazine's 30 below 30 emerging writers.
In 2020, she wrote the monthly "Exceptional Poetry" column for Frontier Poetry.
She has received degrees from Yale University and Cambridge University and taught English in the U.S., the U.K., and France.