Shari Caplan is a poet, actress, and development professional. She is the siren behind “Advice from a Siren” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) and her poems have swum into Gulf Coast, Deluge, Drunk Monkeys, Non-binary Review, and more. Shari has been a featured reader at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where she has also organized experimental reading performance pieces, the “Poetry Carnival” and a “Fairy Tale Poetry Tour.” Her work has earned her fellowships to The Home School in New York, the Vermont Studio Center and nominations for a Rhylsing Award and a Pushcart Prize. She serves as producer and Madam of The Poetry Brothel in Boston, an immersive literary event fusing poetry, activism, cabaret, burlesque, mysticism, and more.