- Shanna Yetman
- https://www.authorshannayetman.org/
- Shanna Yetman is an environmental writer, humorist and Latina living in Chicago. She enjoys character-driven fiction with a social-justice edge. Her writing centers on the climate crisis and how we can reimagine our planet’s future. Shanna has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland and a BA in English Literature from Wellesley College. She’s an alumna of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and the Byrdcliffe Artist in Residency Program and has taught at UIC’s Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (SISE). Her latest story, “Megacity Melancholy” appears in the Vivid Worlds Solarpunk Anthology by The Slab Press. Her novella, Everlastingness, was a quarterfinalist in Pulp Literature’s First Page Cage. Her fiction and humor has appeared in 365tomorrows, Unlikely Stories Mark V, DreamForge Anvil, Sky Island Journal, Cheap Pop, MoonPark Review, Daily Drunk, Jellyfish Review, Bullets into Bells, The Writing Disorder, and Connotation Press. She’s placed, earned honorable mentions or won contests with WOW (Women on Writing), Reflex Fiction, and New Millennium Writings. She’s received a DCASE Individual Artist Grant. When she’s not writing, she serves on her local school board and tortures her children with long walks through Cook County’s local forest preserves. She currently serves as an Editor for Flash Fiction Magazine.
