Shannon Gibney

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), a young adult novel based on her experience as a transracial adoptee that won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Young Peoples' Literature. Her novel Dream Country (Dutton, September 2018), is the story of five generations of an African and African American family, trying to find freedom and home on two continents. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where she teaches critical and creative writing, journalism, and African Diasporic topics. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, she is also at work on a children's picture book, a literary anthology of writing by women of color on miscarriage and infant loss, and a family memoir.