Media Kit — Matthew Shankula

Short Bio:
Matthew Shankula is a Nashville-based poet and visual artist. His work explores identity, healing, and hope through faith-rooted language and minimalist imagery. He shares weekly poems and studio studies at matthewshankula.com and speaks about art as a pathway to inner restoration.

Long Bio:
Matthew Shankula writes poems and creates visual studies that sit at the intersection of faith, identity, and inner healing. Working in plainspoken lines and quiet watercolors, he traces the movement from woundedness to wholeness, inviting readers to encounter hope in ordinary moments. Based in Nashville, Matthew publishes new poems weekly and pairs many of them with sketches or watercolor studies. He is available for conversations about the creative life and recovery, and collaborations with churches, galleries, and community spaces. Selected poems and artwork live at matthewshankula.com, with ongoing reflections shared across Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and X.

Topics & Formats

Readings & Q&A — poems on healing, identity, and faith

Artist talks — the creative process, scripture & image, recovering voice

Workshops — journaling into poems, pairing words with images

Podcasts/Interviews — art and inner restoration

Selected Links

Start here: /home/
All poems: /poetry/
Visual art: /artandphotography
About: /about/
Contact: /connect/

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Matthew Shankula is a Nashville-based poet and visual artist exploring identity, healing, and hope at matthewshankula.com.