Shannon Mullen is a high school teacher and writer currently based in Toronto, Canada. She has previously taught in northern British Columbia, Nunavut, England, and Colombia. While this is her first novel, Shannon's writing has been published in The Globe & Mail, Thought Catalog, Rebelle Society, and Elephant Journal. She blogs about her adventures in teaching, writing, and travel at shannonmullen.me. See What Flowers, contemporary fiction about love and mental illness, is her début novel.