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Shannon Waite

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Chuck Palahniuk, Elizabeth Ellen, Selah Saterstrom, Shane Page

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Award-winning writer and educator Shannon Waite writes stories about norms, characters who break norms, and society's wounds. They're always contemporary, often transgressive. Her debut novel, Raising Women, is an interactive novel in which readers make self-destructive decisions that explore the wild that is growing up girl.

Her short fiction has been published in PANK, Hobart, and elsewhere. She has two bachelor’s degrees in English and Creative Writing from Oakland University and an MA in Teaching and Curriculum from Michigan State University. Shannon lives in Michigan with her hamster. ...more

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Podcast: The Women on Indie Reads Aloud

I am grateful that I had another opportunity on Indie Reads Aloud to talk about my short story collection The Women, and then read part of "Young and Reckless" from the book with Diana Kathryn Penn on her Indie Reads Aloud podcast. You can listen to it on Spotify, or watch it on YouTube.

You can look forward to me reading from The Women soon too!

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Legs Get Led Astray

by Chloé Caldwell (Goodreads Author)

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Wow. This was a wild ride, but in the best way possible. Reading this play is like getting the dirtiest gossip thrown at you all at once; it's like hanging out with people who feel so infuriatingly and complexly human. It all made sense, even if none ...more
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“Girls are like house pets. Trained young and ruthlessly into pleasing people. At first it's parents, but very quickly it becomes boys. Men. Boys and men. Sit pretty. Don't talk too loudly. Eat nicely. Please. Please. Please people. You are there for first your family, then the world. It's a mother's job to bring a girl into the family, and then to prepare her for the world. If the training worked, little girls want men.”
― Shannon Waite, Raising Women

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