Shalini Singh BSc LLB (Hons) LLM , MFA, PhD candidate in Texts and Technology at UCF is a lawyer, editor for DIAGRAM and The Florida Review, professor, interdisciplinary social scientist and an extrême contemporain from Bihar-Gujarat, India. Her STEM- law background stems from working in the legal industry and courts, content strategizing, media branding, copywriting, research based projects and a dozen academic publications and pesentations. She is the author of Confessions of a Turophile (2018) and her MFA thesis, Lullaby into the Microphone has been nominated for major awards like Tomaz Salamun Prize, Airlie Prize, etc. Her non fiction has been nominated for the Best American Essays 2025, her hybrid poems have been longlisted for DISQUIET poetry Prize 2025 and her writing as well as workshops have won multiple awards and scholarship from national and international organizations. Shalini writes a newsletter on substack: https://belladonnaoflavender.substack.com/
She was a Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida International University, 2025-26 where she taught prerequisites and upper division courses in technical writing and thetoric. Having taught core sciences courses and creative writing for over a decade, Shalini wishes to bridge the praxis between scientific regimentation and conceptual creation. Shalini collaborated with ISUComm faculty and Fellows to develop curricula and explore AI-integration frameworks for multilingual and international student communities while also devising visual AI reflections a few years later. In the past she has reviewed books and movies whilst travelling and collecting stories. Shalini is currently working on multiple visual archival projects and a non fiction memoir called The Revanchist.
Her dedication to teaching has been recognized through a nomination for the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools Teaching Excellence Award (2025) and the Spring 2025 Teaching Excellence Award. She has received support from the Writers’ Colony, Mainframe Studios, Bread Loaf, Iowa Lakeside Lab, and other esteemed international organizations. With a legal background, technical critical bent of mind, and experience as a legal analyst, Shalini brings a unique lens to adjudicating social, ethical, and interpretive issues in writing and rhetoric. She is committed to developing pedagogies that bridge engineering, the arts, law, and writing—moving from STEM to STEAM through multimodality, play, and justice-oriented learning. Her doctoral research is multi pronged with visual legal rhetorics, how risk communication happens in minority spaces/wellness and retreats as well as the idea of survival and homing in through reality media productions.
Shalini loves to hike, binge watch and analyze movies, cook, play Magic: the Gathering, pilates, learning new stuff and experimenting.