HELLO

My name is Shane Chase. I was born in 1998, in Tallahassee, Florida, at my house and raised in Fort Myers, FL within walking distance from the Caloosahatchee River. 

I try to keep my writing as just another part of my day. No bigger or smaller than a shower. I’m a firm believer in a socialist program being implemented in the US at large, one that distributes wealth and power more evenly among the workers of the country, and the world.

My education has been inflected by my family and friends who have gone through the traditional education system as well as those who have not. Travel and dislocation also play a large role in my thinking as a writer/person. I attended my local Florida Southwestern State College for a year before getting a summer study abroad scholarship which brought me to Florence, Italy. This changed my trajectory completely. And after that, I continued to live abroad in London, UK, and earned a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from University of Westminster. In London, I worked as a jigsaw puzzle carver in Camden Town Stables Market, with the Socialist Appeal Newspaper, Camden Arts Centre, at various restaurants, pubs, and cafes around the city, and before returning to the US, as a TA at St. James Primary School in Stratford. 

Some writers who have inspired me are: Osip Mandelstam, Gregory Pardlo, C.D. Wright, Felisberto Hernández, Reginald Shepherd, Alice Notley, Vernon Lee, Nicanor Parra, Jean Valentine, Frank Kermode, Jack Spicer, and Hart Crane.

I have published in South Dakota Review, Nouveau Re:AL Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. In 2024, I wrote and co-directed a short film on a budget of zero, with incredibly skilled and generous friends, entitled The Girl Who Stole The Sun as an ode to London before returning to the US.

This year I started/edited a small poetry magazine dedicated to publishing unfinished or incomplete poems to expose nascent poetry, or poetry ‘in the making’ called the Fort Myers Review. We hope to encourage local SWFL writers to submit and showcase their work, although we are not limited by regional focus. I’m also an associate editor at The Brooklyn Review.

Currently, I am a Truman Capote Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at Brooklyn College in New York City. Feel free to write me if you would like to know more about me or my work.