Shannon Bowring’s award-winning work has appeared in numerous journals, including Best Small Fictions, and has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. She is the recipient of the 2022 Julia Peterkin Literary Award for Flash Fiction and was selected by Deesha Philyaw as a finalist for the Fractured Lit Anthology II Contest. Her debut novel, The Road to Dalton, was selected as an NPR Best Book in 2023 and won the Maine Literary Book Award for Fiction in 2024. The second book in the Dalton Novels series, Where the Forest Meets the River, was published in September 2024. The third book in the series, IN A DISTANT VALLEY, is forthcoming from Europa Editions.