Shannon Young

Shannon Young is an American author living in Hong Kong. Her books include a love story, Ferry Tale; a coming of age travel memoir, Year of Fire Dragons; and a Kindle Single on student debt. She also edited an anthology of creative non-fiction by expat women in Asia and has written ebooks including a mini travel memoir, The Olympics Beat, and a novella, The Art of Escalator Jumping. Shannon grew up in Arizona in a homeschooling family of nine children. She attended Colgate University in New York before moving to Hong Kong in 2010. Shannon's writing has appeared in the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society's anthology, on numerous websites, and in MARY: a journal of new writing. She writes a blog called A Kindle in Hong Kong and a regular column about being an expat writer on The Displaced Nation. You can follow Shannon's work and join her email list at the following sites: Website: shannonyoungwriter.com Blog: akindleinhongkong.blogspot.com Twitter: @ShannonYoungHK