About Me
Shannon Ragan
Shannon Ragan earned her BA in creative writing from Webster University and leads the Webster University Alumni Writers Network. She is the 2027 Pen Parentis Fellow. Her short stories have appeared in Teach. Write. Literary Journal and forthcoming issues of Dreamers, The Midwest Review, and Santa Barbara Literary Journal. Shannon lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and young daughter.
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 / Richard Flanagan
for putting me on the line in all of its forms in The Narrow Road to the Deep North
5 / Kaveh Akbar
waving his finger when I think I know the twist of Martyr!
2 / Maggie O’Farrell
gutting me down to the very last word of Hamnet
3 / Kazuo Ishiguro
changing my mind again and again and again in An Artist of the Floating World
6 / Barbara Kingsolver
and all the voices of the Price women in The Poisonwood Bible
7 / Agustina Bazterrica
for making me read Tender is the Flesh through slits in my fingers
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
