Shannon Fara O’Neill

Born in Michigan and raised in Dearborn, Shannon Fara O’Neill is a writer whose fiction and non-fiction frequently addresses the history and identity of Arab Americans and the cultural divide in American society around issues facing Arabs and Muslims in our shifting political and cultural landscapes. Her writing has appeared in Glimmer Train, Asian American Literary Review (AALR), and Mizna, among others. She is working on a linked story collection which traces the history of two families from a small village in Lebanon to the Southend of Dearborn, and recently completed a crime novel, also set in post 9-11 Dearborn.