Shannon is a poet, essayist, humor writer, and novelist whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reader's Digest, Scary Mommy, Points in Case, AARP, and other publications.
Her first chapbook, File Cabinet Heart, was the 2014 winner of the ELJ Publications Mini-Collection Competition. Her second chapbook, Motherland, was published by Anchor & Plume Press in 2015.
Her first full-length poetry book, "Things Hard and Lovely," was published by ELJ Publications and her debut young adult novel, Stay Center, is out now. You can hear an early pitch of this novel on this episode of The Shit No One Tells You About Writing podcast.
A Pennsylvania native, Shannon now lives in Suffolk, Virginia. She is an enthusiastic student and regular instructor at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA. She spends her non-working hours raising two kids with her husband, reading stacks of novels, and trying (and failing) to rid her home of dog hair.
