Shannon Carriger is a writer and teacher living in Kansas. In 2020 her first book, Deep Inside that Rounded World, was published by Finishing Line Press.
Shannon earned her MA in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Kansas State University, where she was editor-in-chief of Touchstone, the campus literary journal. She won the Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry from Inscape Literary Journal for her poem “Empire,” which was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in several publications including Midwest Quarterly, Cathexis Northwest Press, and Prometheus Dreaming.
She’s interested in gardening as self care, the music of Dolly Parton, Etta James, Jason Isbell, and Beastie Boys, and often wonders what went wrong in the lives of NY Times Crossword puzzle writers that made their work such instruments of torture. She lives with her poet professor husband in a nearly hundred year old house filled with books and records and more love than she ever imagined she would know.
Praise for Shannon’s Debut Collection:
“Deep Inside That Rounded World is a beautiful walk through everyday lives and moments, people both familiar and fictional. It is an ode to the perfectly put phrase and a meditation on what we notice, or don’t, as we walk our path.” ~ Misty Bell Stiers, author of Witch Please: A Memoir: Finding Magic in Modern Times
“The poems in Shannon Carriger’s debut collection Deep Inside that Rounded World often suture history to a single, human life—one left out of our more public, official narratives. These poems follow the light no matter how it bends, or through what stubborn materials. They do not flinch.” ~ Ben Cartwright, author of After Our Departure and The Meanest Things Pick Clean
Find this book at Finishing Line Press or on Amazon, or contact your local bookstore.
My Latest Blog Posts:
A Seat at the Table
The noise surrounding all of us these days is technicolor and, often, terrifying. We’re bombarded with offers to improve our lives through consumption, we’re told the sky is falling by both major political parties, and we’re offered escape…
A Summer Word or Two
It’s amazing how much my world shifts when I walk out of the building in which I work knowing I don’t have to be back there for 75 days. My shoulders lower. My breathing slows. My brain calms…
Something Feels Familiar
Five years ago today I left my classroom for Spring Break. We’d had to put our sweet dog Zelda down a few days earlier, the pandemic was just starting to be real for most of the country, and…
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