About Me

Cody Shrum is a two-time Puschart-nominated, award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and scholarship. He earned his BA and MA in English/ Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction from Pittsburg State University, and he earned an MFA in Creative Writing and Media Arts from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2020 with an emphasis in fiction. Cody also taught college-level English and composition courses from 2014-2022.

 

His writing has appeared in such publications as HAD, The Hooghly Review, BULL, Identity Theory, Prime Number Magazine, Rust & Moth, The Midwest Quarterly, and others. His story titled "127 Feet" won the 2016 Astra Arts Festival Writing Contest for Fiction.

​

Cody's debut poetry chapbook, Green Acre, was the top finalist in the 2024 Jonathan Holden Chapbook Contest and was published on July 25, 2024 by Choeofpleirn Press. 

​​

In fall 2021, Cody's book chapter about Alison Bechdel's graphic memoirs was published in a book through Routledge titled Feminist Readings of Comics: New Essays on Interpretation and Visual Narrative. The chapter is titled "Comics and Gendered Subjectivity: The Multifaceted Truth of Alison Bechdel's Graphic Memoirs." This chapter can be made available upon request.

​

Cody lives in Kansas City with his wife, Kylee, and their ferocious guard dogs, Zeus and Phoebe. Cody is an instructional content designer, and a fiction editor for Identity Theory Magazine.