Shawna L Swetech RN Member Member since 2018

RN Poet, Co-host of Rivertown Poets monthly series

Poetry Visual Art

Shawna L. Swetech—a retired hospital nurse, is a poet and mixed-media visual artist. Her poetry appears in Rattle, The Healing Muse, Ars Medica, Pulse, the American Journal of Nursing, among other journals and anthologies. Her work ranges from the personal to universal, the body to the body politic, drawing from the deep wells of human nature and the natural world. Shawna is a co-host for monthly reading series, Rivertown Poets. Her first poetry collection based on her thirty-five-year nursing career, “Standing in Their Fire,” was published by Kelsay Books., January, 2026. Shawna believes poetry and art are important medicines for the ills of our modern world.