Shannon Gatewood

2020 Emerging Voices Fellow

Shannon Gatewood was born and raised in Chicago and currently resides in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology, has worked in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors, and currently works as a college advisor supporting students at ScholarMatch. Shannon is writing her first novel, a story that follows a family of Black women after their father and husband dies suddenly of a heart attack.


Articles by Shannon Gatewood

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Wednesday September 9

Leave Expectations at the Door

“The book is still in progress. Some days it’s still so hard to put words on the page, but I’m not mad about any of this. I have grown in ways that I didn’t think were possible.”