Shannon Sanders
Shannon Sanders lives and works near Washington, DC. Her debut short story collection, Company, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press on October 3, 2023.

Company can be preordered at the following sites (among others):
Shannon’s short story “The Good, Good Men” was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and is featured in BEST DEBUT SHORT STORIES 2020. She would love to hear from you at [email protected].
Twitter: @ShandersWrites
Instagram: @i.exaggerate
Short Stories
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- “The Good, Good Men”–winner, 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
Puerto del Sol, Black Voices Series (spring 2019) - “Bless Her Heart”–honorable mention, July/August 2016 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award Contest
Requited Journal Issue 19 (spring 2019) - “Dragonflies”
SLICE Issue 24: TIME (spring 2019) - “The Gatekeepers”
Juked # 16 (summer 2019) - “Company”
Strange Horizons Issue 10 February 2020 (winter 2020) - “Nobody Would Do That”
Electric Literature, The Commuter Issue No. 107 (spring 2020) - “The Everest Society”
One Story #263 (spring 2020) - “Mote”
Joyland (summer 2020) - “Rioja”
SLICE Issue 26: PERSISTENCE (fall 2020) - “The Second Liliosa”
TriQuarterly Issue 159 (winter 2021)
- “The Good, Good Men”–winner, 2020 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers