Rone Shavers is author of the experimental Afrofuturist novel Silverfish (Clash Books), a finalist for the 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction. He writes in multiple literary genres and his work has appeared in numerous journals, including Another Chicago Magazine, Big Other, Black Warrior Review, BOMB, PANK, and The Vestal Review. He has been awarded an Arthur T. Schwab poet-in-residence fellowship to MacDowell, a Nancy B. Negley writer-in-residence to Dora Maar House, a Pabst Mentoring Artist-in-Residence fellowship to the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and writer-in-residence fellowships to the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VCCA France, and several other locales. His most recent creative work is Ten Crônicas, a chapbook collection of prose poems published by The Magnificent Field in late 2021.

Shavers is fiction and hybrid genre editor at the award-winning journal, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Additionally, he co-curated and wrote the catalog for the 2019 art exhibition, “In Place of Now: Established and Emerging Artists Explore Black Identity through an Afrofuturist Lens,” which featured the artwork of Willie Cole, Renee Cox, and Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, among others, and took place at the Opalka Galley of Sage College in Albany, NY.

Shavers is Associate Professor of English at The University of Utah in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. He has previously taught courses in creative writing at The College of Saint Rose, the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. In early 2024, Shavers will serve a one-semester appointment as the McGee Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.