Shannon Sanders

Biography

Shannon Sanders is a Black writer and attorney near Washington, DC. Her debut short-story collection, Company, is forthcoming (Graywolf, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, TriQuarterly, Electric Literature, Joyland, and elsewhere, and she has received a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

See Work

FICTION / Fall 2023

The Opal Cleft

By Shannon Sanders ,  Illustration by Anna Schuleit Haber

Here was Cyrus at the door on a Saturday, unannounced and with a leather duffel hanging from each arm, asking to crash for a night or two—three at absolute most.

Illustration by Anna Schuleit Haber