Shannon Laws

Shannon P. Laws, born Seattle WA, lives ninety miles north in Bellingham where she was honored with a Mayor’s Arts Award in 2013 for coordination of various poetry events and 2016 in recognition for her LP radio production work promoting northwest artists. She received the Community Champion Award, 2015, courtesy of the Writer’s International Network in Richmond, B.C., Canada for collaboration with World Peace Poets. Shannon’s publications include three poetry books, Fallen, Madrona Grove, a chapbook Odd Little Things, and an audiobook of select poetry “You Love Me, You Love Me Not.” Shannon has performed at various Northwest Washington and British Columbia venus including the Jack McCarthy Evergreen Invitational Slam, Western Washington University’s Erotic Poetry Night, the West Coast Tagore Festival, Writers International Network Canada, Everett Poetry Night, Auburn Days, Poets in the Park (Redmond), Book Tree (Kirkland), King’s Books (Tacoma), San Juan Island Public Library, Bellingham venues including Village Books Literature LIVE, Greene’s Corner, Poetry Night, The Alternative Library, Creekside Open Mic, and Kitchen Sessions. Shannon worked as a contributing poet for the Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater with the Bellingham Repertory Dance Company’s “Phrasings” collaboration and Adirondack Center for Writing’s “PoemVillage” in New York. This female Pacific Northwest writer focuses primarily on wage and wealth inequality, homelessness, love & humor, and simple moments that paint big pictures.