Shannon Luders-Manuel has an M.A. in English literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a B.A. in English and writing from Southern Oregon University.

Her debut book, Black Prince: A Father-Daughter Story in Black and White, is forthcoming by Lawrence Hill Books / Chicago Review Press. in Summer 2024. The memoir chronicles her life growing up mixed race in the San Francisco Bay Area, and taking care of her dying, estranged father with a substance use disorder when she was twenty-four.

Shannon’s work has been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Simple, Essence, among others, and was a regular contributor to JSTOR Daily. She was a panelist at the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference in Chicago and a featured writer at the 2014 Mixed Remixed Festival in Los Angeles.

Shannon works as an editor, a contract DEI Content Reviewer for Pearson, Inc., and a freelance sensitivity reader for individuals and publishers. She’s passionate about liminal spaces—those pieces of identity and culture that live between circumscribed lines. Because she lives in a liminal space herself, she’s able to enhance the work of others without changing their unique style, and to provide sensitivity reviews that gently guide the client, believing in their best intentions.

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Shannon is represented by Farley Chase of Chase Literary Agency.