who?

Chelsey K. Shannon

is a writer and an editor at the University of New Orleans Press. She holds an M.F.A. from the UNO Creative Writing Workshop. As a teenager, she published the memoir Chelsey: My True Story of Murder, Loss, and Starting Over. Other publications can be found here. Scorpio moon, Cancer rising, Aquarius sun, Chelsey is committed to interrogating and creating from her position as a biracial Black queer femme. She’s prone to obsession and lives in New Orleans with her family.