Bio: |
Shannon Gibney is a writer who lives in Minneapolis. A 2005 Bush Artist Fellow, she was most recently managing editor at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, the state’s oldest Black newspaper, from 2002-2005.
Gibney’s articles regularly appear in a number of publications, including City Pages, The Minneapolis Observer, mnartists.org, Black Enterprise Magazine, and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder. Her poetry has appeared in Wicked Alice and the Bellingham Review, and you can find her nonfiction in Essence Magazine. Gibney was awarded the 2002 Hurston/Wright Award in fiction, and her short fiction has appeared in Brilliant Corners and is forthcoming in Outsiders Within (South End Press, 2006). She is a 2002 graduate of Indiana University’s MFA program in fiction and also holds an MA in 20th Century African American literature from that institution. Currently, Gibney is at work on her novel Hank Aaron’s Daughter. Catch her monthly curating Thinking Souls, mnartists.org's new feature on Minnesota literature and writers. |
