Shannon O'Neill

Shannon Fara O'Neill is a writer, grief educator and director of Richmond Story House. Her writing has appeared in Seventh Wave, Glimmer Train, Asian American Literary Review (AALR) and Mizna among others. Her recent essays and blog, A Moveable Grief, explore how grief and trauma reshape our identity. She has received fellowships and scholarships to attend the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA), Eckerd College Writers’ Conference: Writers in Paradise, the Key West Literary Seminar and Workshop. Shannon earned her MFA in Fiction at Virginia Commonwealth University.