She's also co-editor with Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northern of the recent anthology Beauty is a Verb: A New Poetry of Disability. Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking work combining disability poetry, essays on disability, and commentaries on the poetics of both. One reviewer wrote about Beauty is a Verb, "This powerful anthology succeeds at intimately showing...disability through the lens of poetry. What emerges from the book as a whole is a stunningly diverse array of conceptions of self and other." Given Sheila Black's brilliance as a poet and an editor, it can be difficult to remember she is also a prolific author of children's books with some 40 titles under her belt.