Shannon Robinson's stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, Nimrod, failbetter, and Joyland. She has received Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and a Hedgebrook Fellowship, as well as grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Robinson has been a writer in residence at the Interlochen Arts Academy; she has also taught fiction and nonfiction at Washington University in St. Louis, and through Stanford University’s School of Continuing Studies.