M Shelly Conner is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. Her multigenre writings examine culture through a dapperqueer womanist lens and include publications in America's Test Kitchen Proof podcast, the A.V. Club, NBC News, and TheGrio. everyman, a Nautilus Book Award Silver Winner in Fiction, is her debut novel. Shelly is repped by Beth Marshea at Ladderbird Agency.
