• April 1, 2024
          Finalists reading: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction and Poetry
          April 3, 2024
          One Page Wednesday: APRIL
          April 4, 2024
          Everybody Reads 2024: Gabrielle Zevin
          April 8, 2024
          2024 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
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Shannon Wright

Shannon Wright is an illustrator and cartoonist based out of Richmond, Virginia. She illustrated the picture book My Mommy Medicine by Edwidge Danticat, and the graphic novel Twins by Varian Johnson. Some of her clients include the Guardian, TIME, the New York Times, Mother Jones, NPR, and Google.


Purchase Twins from Green Bean Books, one of our Portland-based, independent bookstore partners HERE.

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