Shannon Bowring’s work has appeared in numerous journals and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She is the recipient of the 2022 Julia Peterkin Literary Award for Flash Fiction and was selected by Deesha Philyaw as a finalist for the Fractured Lit Anthology II Contest. Shannon has been recognized on such short- and long-lists as the Maine Literary Awards, the Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition, and the New Millennium Writing Awards. Her debut novel, The Road to Dalton, received a Kirkus Starred Review and was selected as an NPR Best Book in 2023. The sequel to The Road to Dalton, WHERE THE FOREST MEETS THE RIVER, will be published on September 3, 2024 by Europa Editions.

Shannon grew up in Northern Maine, surrounded by pine trees and potato fields. Born with two congenital heart defects, she underwent multiple operations before she was six years old. From an early age, reading and writing offered an escape from her own reality and allowed her to imagine a much greater world.