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Shannon Barnsley

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Shannon Barnsley is a writer, poet, and folklore devotee from New Hampshire, currently living in Brooklyn. Her first book, Beneath Blair Mountain, was published by 1888 in 2015. Her other works can be found in Mighty: An Anthology of Disabled Superheroes, Nothing Without Us, Witch Lit: Words from the Cauldron, Wolf Warriors I-V, The Cost of Paper: Volume Three, Fabulously Feminist, Redhead Magazine, and The Concord Monitor. She holds a degree in Creative Writing/Mythology & Religion from Hampshire College. Since then, she has kept busy working as an editor, transcriptionist, and historical interpreter, as well as surviving two strokes and an unruly gaggle of chronic illnesses. When not writing or maintaining homeostasis, Shannon can be foun ...more

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Grief in an age of indifference

A neepie lantern (turnip jack-o’-lantern) I carved last year.

I’ll be honest, Halloween, Samhain, and Allhallowtide have been harder these last few years. In addition to not being able to go anywhere because we live in hell and our official public health policy is “be a Gothic Romance love interest and never leave the house again or die, no one cares, you’re expendable”, the staggering amount o

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	Nothing Without Us by Cait Gordon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Talia C. Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Myriad Augustine (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath Blair Mountain 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Warriors: the National Wolfwatcher Coalition by Jonathan W. Thurston (Goodreads Author), David Clement-Davies (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lauren Strohacker (Contributor) 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witch Lit: Words From The Cauldron by Laura Perry (Editor, Contributor), Sheena Cundy (Goodreads Author), Wendy Steele (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cost of Paper: Volume Three by William M. Brandon III (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shannon Barnsley (Goodreads Author) (Contributer), Alex Clark-McGlenn (Contributer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Song of the Dark Wood (Fable Song, #1)

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

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“You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead”
― Shannon Barnsley, Wolf Warriors: the National Wolfwatcher Coalition

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