He attended the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop in 2013 and the Taos Toolbox Writing Workshop in 2016. He was a semi-finalist for the Writers of the Future award in May 2015. His fiction has appeared in Speculative City and on the Gallery of Curiosities podcast. His poetry has appeared in Abyss and Apex. Shannon is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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Shannon is an armchair philosopher, a traveling adventurer, and a skeptical mystic. He enjoys playing music, games, and makes a fabulous cocktail.  He has lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Washington D.C., London, California and Virginia.

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Shannon's fiction is represented by Susan Velazquez Colmant at JABberwocky Literary Agency.

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