Shannon Cain’s fiction has appeared most recently in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review and the New England Review. She received the Pushcart Prize for 2009, the O. Henry Prize for 2008, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006. Her short story, “Cultivation” was recognized as one of the 100 Other Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories 2008.

Shannon earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  She is the co-editor, with Lisa Bowden, of Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq (Kore Press, 2008). Shannon is the fiction editor for Kore Press, an independent publisher of literature by women. She has taught fiction writing at the University of Arizona and currently teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, UCLA Extension, Arizona State University and as a private coach.  She lives in downtown Tucson, Arizona.