Shannon Gibney
@shannongibney.bsky.social
Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in ‘25.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in ‘25.
Heads up that my books published through @uminnpress.bsky.social are included in their Read MN holiday gift guide, a sale campaign where readers get 30% off when they order from their website with code MN94100 (good through Jan. 15, 2026).
November 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Heads up that my books published through @uminnpress.bsky.social are included in their Read MN holiday gift guide, a sale campaign where readers get 30% off when they order from their website with code MN94100 (good through Jan. 15, 2026).
MPS families: This is Mpls Families for Public School’s last ask of the year! Bring your family to this rally on Friday, November 7, to push the district to settle the contract and avert a strike. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
MPS families: This is Mpls Families for Public School’s last ask of the year! Bring your family to this rally on Friday, November 7, to push the district to settle the contract and avert a strike. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
My new author photos are in, and I couldn’t be happier! 🤩 Kyra Nygard is a genius, folks. Definitely give her your business.
Which are your favorites?
Which are your favorites?
October 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
My new author photos are in, and I couldn’t be happier! 🤩 Kyra Nygard is a genius, folks. Definitely give her your business.
Which are your favorites?
Which are your favorites?
CFS: New adoptee anthology on estrangement
September 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
CFS: New adoptee anthology on estrangement
See you on Saturday for this FREE event! ✌🏽
First five families get a free signed book.
@uminnpress.bsky.social
First five families get a free signed book.
@uminnpress.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
See you on Saturday for this FREE event! ✌🏽
First five families get a free signed book.
@uminnpress.bsky.social
First five families get a free signed book.
@uminnpress.bsky.social
So pleased to share the cover for my new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, and published @uminnpress.bsky.social
Where Is My Sister? is the story of a young girl asking family members where her sister has gone after her mother has a stillbirth.
Pre-order deets soon.
Where Is My Sister? is the story of a young girl asking family members where her sister has gone after her mother has a stillbirth.
Pre-order deets soon.
September 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So pleased to share the cover for my new picture book, beautifully illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, and published @uminnpress.bsky.social
Where Is My Sister? is the story of a young girl asking family members where her sister has gone after her mother has a stillbirth.
Pre-order deets soon.
Where Is My Sister? is the story of a young girl asking family members where her sister has gone after her mother has a stillbirth.
Pre-order deets soon.
My daughter’s 5th grade class outside her school, protesting gun violence and the Anunciation shooting, and getting lots of love!
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My daughter’s 5th grade class outside her school, protesting gun violence and the Anunciation shooting, and getting lots of love!
Anyone interested in reading up on the particularities of my case can do so in my essay, “American Perversions: Or the Incredibly Twisted, Horribly True Story of How I Got Educated in the Academy.” I have included the first 5 pgs here. Its part of this book: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
September 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Anyone interested in reading up on the particularities of my case can do so in my essay, “American Perversions: Or the Incredibly Twisted, Horribly True Story of How I Got Educated in the Academy.” I have included the first 5 pgs here. Its part of this book: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Save the date for this free event on Saturday, September 20!
August 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Save the date for this free event on Saturday, September 20!
I can’t get enough of artistic responses to writing…😭
I did a benefit reading with other BIPOC adoptees to raise money for Palestinian families. I read a WIP, a short story that included this quote from Civil Rights Movement icon Diane Nash.
Madalyn Drewno created this stunning piece in response.🙏🏾
I did a benefit reading with other BIPOC adoptees to raise money for Palestinian families. I read a WIP, a short story that included this quote from Civil Rights Movement icon Diane Nash.
Madalyn Drewno created this stunning piece in response.🙏🏾
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I can’t get enough of artistic responses to writing…😭
I did a benefit reading with other BIPOC adoptees to raise money for Palestinian families. I read a WIP, a short story that included this quote from Civil Rights Movement icon Diane Nash.
Madalyn Drewno created this stunning piece in response.🙏🏾
I did a benefit reading with other BIPOC adoptees to raise money for Palestinian families. I read a WIP, a short story that included this quote from Civil Rights Movement icon Diane Nash.
Madalyn Drewno created this stunning piece in response.🙏🏾
I finished my first women’s triathlon this morning! 🙌🏽✨
It was actually tons of fun, and it meant the world to me to have my daughter and friends out there cheering for me.
My training regimen proves that anyone can do it: Swimming a half hour every day and biking or running — all for two months.
It was actually tons of fun, and it meant the world to me to have my daughter and friends out there cheering for me.
My training regimen proves that anyone can do it: Swimming a half hour every day and biking or running — all for two months.
August 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I finished my first women’s triathlon this morning! 🙌🏽✨
It was actually tons of fun, and it meant the world to me to have my daughter and friends out there cheering for me.
My training regimen proves that anyone can do it: Swimming a half hour every day and biking or running — all for two months.
It was actually tons of fun, and it meant the world to me to have my daughter and friends out there cheering for me.
My training regimen proves that anyone can do it: Swimming a half hour every day and biking or running — all for two months.
Come on out to the Minneapolis Midtown Farmer’s Market on Saturday, September 6, for story stroll, book signing and giveaway, and storytime! 🙌🏽👍🏽
@mnbipockidlit.bsky.social
@mnbipockidlit.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Come on out to the Minneapolis Midtown Farmer’s Market on Saturday, September 6, for story stroll, book signing and giveaway, and storytime! 🙌🏽👍🏽
@mnbipockidlit.bsky.social
@mnbipockidlit.bsky.social
My TBR stack just got a boost of brilliance! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Thank you, Chris Hewitt and the Strib. 🤩✨
Thank you, Chris Hewitt and the Strib. 🤩✨
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My TBR stack just got a boost of brilliance! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Thank you, Chris Hewitt and the Strib. 🤩✨
Thank you, Chris Hewitt and the Strib. 🤩✨
It was so fun to see me and @kaokaliayang.bsky.social ‘s new books featured alongside so many other classic texts that the @uminnpress.bsky.social has published through its long and storied history! 🙌🏽 The exhibit on the press’ 100 year history is free and at the UMN Elmer Anderson Library
till Oct.
till Oct.
August 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It was so fun to see me and @kaokaliayang.bsky.social ‘s new books featured alongside so many other classic texts that the @uminnpress.bsky.social has published through its long and storied history! 🙌🏽 The exhibit on the press’ 100 year history is free and at the UMN Elmer Anderson Library
till Oct.
till Oct.