His latest books are Rumors and Borders: Eight Western Plays (Humanitas Media Publishing) and Straight Ahead: Poems (Blue Horse Press). Shuttleworth's poems have appeared in countless journals, including Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, and Weber: The Contemporary West. In 2007 True West magazine named him "Best Living Western Poet." He is the recipient of the 2016 Western Heritage "Wrangler" Award for Outstanding Poetry Book (Woe to the Land Shadowing, Blue Horse Press) and three Western Writers of America Spur Awards for Poetry. His plays have been presented widely, including at Saddleback College, Sundance Playwrights Lab, the State University of New York at Fredonia, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespeare Festival.