Shannon Amidon

Shannon Amidon's poems have appeared in CutThroat, A Journal for the Arts; Runes, a Review of Poetry; Willow Springs; RATTLE, Poetry for the 21st Century; Memorious; storySouth; and elsewhere. She was awarded honorable mention in the 2008 Comstock Review chapbook contest and her manuscript, The Garden After, was one of three finalists for the 2008 Perugia Press Prize. A member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, she lives in Hilo, Hawai'i (on the Big Island) with her husband and infant son.