Johnson County Library is pleased to announce that Cody Shrum has won our writing contest on the theme The Reluctant I with his poem "Catfishing the Elk City Reservoir, ft. Bugs."
Cody Shrum is a writer and editor based in Kansas City. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cody’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in such journals as HAD, BULL, Cleaver Magazine, Harbor Review, Rust + Moth, and The Midwest Quarterly. He is also a fiction editor at Identity Theory. Cody's debut collection of poetry, Green Acre, was the top finalist in the 2024 Jonathan