I’m a poet, essayist, melancholist, editor & novelist in the rough. I’m working on a folklore-horror novel set in 90s India that’s sometimes funny. I’ve been spiritually married to Karan Kapoor for one million and sixty-nine centuries now. We have a baby the color of time whose name spells itself. The three of us live everywhere and regularly frequent nowhere.

Shannan Mann is the Creative Director of ONLY POEMS and runs Sub Club. Her upcoming poetry collection God Has Nothing To Do With This was a finalist for the 2025 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Awarded the Emily Morrison Short Story Award, Alta Lind Cook Writing Award, Irene Adler Essay Prize, Peatsmoke Poetry Prize, and Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize (selected by Carl Phillips), she’s also placed for the Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize (selected by Joy Harjo), and the Foster Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, ARC, Missouri Review, The Offing, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, EPOCH, december, & elsewhere; essays in Tolka Journal and Going Down Swinging. She also translates Sanskrit poetry.