Shannon C. F. Rogers

Shannon is a multiracial American writer of Filipinx and European descent. 

Her debut novel, I’D RATHER BURN THAN BLOOM, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Youth Literature in 2024. Shannon’s writing has appeared in Bodega Magazine, Newfound Journal, and on stage with Tricklock Company, Lady Luck Productions, and the UNM Words Afire Festival of New Plays.

She earned her B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in Writing For Young People at Antioch University Los Angeles. Having served as an educator, after-school program director, and lost mitten finder at schools in Albuquerque, Chicago, and New York City, she now lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY.