Shannon Sweetnam is a Chicago-based writer whose stories have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Georgetown Review, Literal Latte, NANO Fiction, Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments, and The Pinch.
She received the 2010 Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, 2005 and 2014 Illinois Arts Council grants, second place in the 2014 Literal Latte Fiction Contest, and was shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport Fiction Prize in England.