Shannan is the Founding Editor of ONLY POEMS. She has been awarded the Palette Love & Eros Prize, Alta Lind Cook Prize, Irene Adler Essay Prize. Her poetry appears in Best New Poets, Missouri Review, Poet Lore, EPOCH, The Literary Review of Canada, Rattle, Gulf Coast, etc. She's also mom to a 4-year old, a grad student, & a Data and Content Lead at Chill Subs.