Shanna McNair is the founder of The Writer’s Hotel writers conferences and The New Guard literary review. She is an award-winning journalist, and her work has appeared in various literary journals and magazines, including Maine Magazine, Diagram and Naugatuck River Review. She was writer-in-residence at Hewnoaks Artist Colony, at the Stonecoast Ireland Residency in Dingle, and was an honorary resident at the Thomas Lynch College in Moveen, Ireland. She holds a MALS in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, an MFA from USM Stonecoast, and a Creative Writing Certificate from Oxford University. Check out the latest TWH conferences at www.writershotelweekends.com and The New Guard literary review at www.newguardreview.com.