Shannon Bowring

Shannon Bowring’s work has appeared in numerous journals and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. Her debut novel, The Road to Dalton, published by Europa Editions, was chosen as one of NPR’s Books We Love in 2023 and won the Maine Literary Book Award for Fiction in 2024. The second installment of the Dalton Novels, Where the Forest Meets the River, was published in September 2024. The third book in the series, In a Distant Valley, is forthcoming from Europa Editions.

Shannon holds a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Maine and an MFA from the Stonecoast low-residency program at USM. Raised in Aroostook County, she now resides in the mid-coast region of Maine, where she works at her local library.