Shannon Weber, Ph.D

Hello! I'm delighted my work brought you here. I'm a writer, researcher, editor, mostly recovered academic, and educator with an assignment to pursue collective liberation in this lifetime. I've done so over the past 15+ years in the fields of communications, digital media, and higher education. The author of three non-fiction books on feminism, activism, and civic engagement, I am currently working on a fourth - stay tuned! You may have seen my writing in indie outlets like Bitch Media, Teen Vogue, and my previous employer, The Body Is Not An Apology. During my time as a gender studies professor, my scholarly work in LGBTQ+ studies was published in international peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. Most recently I've led the creative direction and project management for my dear mentor and friend, New York Times-winning author and poet Sonya Renee Taylor.

Before I grew up to be the writer I wanted to be as a little girl, I was born in Los Angeles and raised mostly in Idaho (do not recommend). I then blossomed at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts before zig-zagging between California and New England for the next decade-plus. These days I'm deeply honored to call myself a resident of the wonderfully weird and enchanted Salem, MA, where I reside with my spouse and chiweenie rescue mix Freya. My favorite things are the sea, travel, dogs, history, democratic socialism, and fellow witchy queers.