Writer | Editor | Sensitivity Reader

Shannon Luders-Manuel is a writer, editor, and sensitivity reader in Los Angeles, California. Her works have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, and JSTOR Daily, among others. She is passionate about exploring the liminal space of mixed race identity and performs sensitivity reads with a focus on race.

Her memoir, The One Who Loves You: A Memoir Of Growing Up Biracial in a Black and White World, is forthcoming from Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, in Feb 2025.

Header thumbnail image by Giselle Potter for the New York Times.