Shannon is a writer, editor, and librarian with a B.A. in English and a Masters in Library and Information Science. Her work can be seen around the web at Mutha Magazine and in print in Folk Rebellion's The Dispatch, as well as GCLS's Library Now magazine, at which she is also a contributing editor. She is a co-creator and writer at the podcast Strange South, and working on a novel set in a fictional Western NC town called Panther Valley about a girl who communes with snakes, carries a knife and a deck of tarot cards, and apprentices an animal control specialist named Hez. Shannon craves a good research project, writes with her head and heart, and loves editing to take someone else's writing to the next level.