A well-beloved figure in the Dallas performance arts community, Shanna Hale has gained notoriety for her poetry and for her signature dramatic monologues. Originally inspired to write while in the fifth grade, Shanna has been performing her work since 1995, and has appeared at such venues as Café Bliss, Insomnia, and Bill's Records & Tapes. Her poems have seen publication in several anthologies, and she has self-published one collection of her work entitled To the World, My Sins and Confessions. In 2003, she was designated as an alternate in the Writer's Garret Acting Out! competition.

Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Shanna settled in Texas at the age of four and currently makes her home in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Her pending projects include a crown of sonnets comprising all 201 fairy tales, and a second collection of her work.

Alice Grown Old (Listen) | The Crayon Poem (Listen) | Directions (Listen) | The Dreamcatcher (Listen) | Emotional Stability (Listen) | Intimacy (Listen) | Lady Icarus (Listen) | Little Girl Lost (Listen) | Madonna (Listen) | Persephone Personified (Listen) | The Shoe Poem (Listen) | This Morning (Listen) | Untitled (Listen)