About Me
Shannon Ragan
​I am a fiction writer and freelance marketer living in St. Louis, MO, with my husband, five-year-old daughter, and far too many house plants. I earned my BA in creative writing from Webster University, and have been press ganging friends into workshops ever since. In 2014, I moved to the Bay Area and worked in content marketing for cybersecurity and open source intelligence. In 2020, I moved back to my hometown, reuniting with my family, book club, and Midwestern housing prices.
I write historical fiction full of characters on the brink, for readers who love a slow burn, a dark tale, and a wild, wild sea.
Projects
COMPLETE
Lost
A shipwreck casts an unrepentant convict and a faithless chaplain into the open sea. One seeks freedom, the other forgiveness. Both will learn the depths of what it means to be lost.
IN PROGRESS
A Farm at the End of the World
A garden buried in snow. A seed bank under siege. An indoor farm in an inhospitable future. Three women try to protect what they love in times where precious things cannot survive.
True Loves
1 / Barbara Kingsolver
and all the voices of the Price women in The Poisonwood Bible
5 / Kaveh Akbar
waving his finger when I think I know the twist of Martyr!
2 / Maggie O’Farrell
gutting readers down to the last word of Hamnet
3 / Kazuo Ishiguro
changing my mind again and again and again in An Artist of the Floating World
6 / Agustina Bazterrica
making me read Tender is the Flesh through my fingers
7 / Kaliane Bradley
melting my cold heart for a book about time travel in The Ministry of Time
4 / Toni Morrison
whispering Beloved to me as I drive across the South
8 / Emily Brontë
throwing her messy, weeping characters all over the furniture in Wuthering Heights
