Shannon Phillips is the founding editor of Carnival, an online literary magazine, which she eventually transitioned into Picture Show Press. She is also the co-founder of the annual Mother’s Day poetry reading at Gatsby Books and the recipient of the 28th Moon Prize from Writing In A Woman’s Voice. She has published three chapbooks and is working on a fourth, tentatively titled Men and Women and Men. After teaching English as a Second Language and working as admin support in Higher Ed for several years, she decided to take the plunge and become a freelance writer and editor. Find her on Twitter @hungrybookstore.