Shannon C.F. Rogers

Shannon performed performed at a SpeakTogether student matinee at Talent Unlimited High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on January 10, 2024, speaking on the theme, “Time May Change You.”

Shannon C.F. Rogers is a multiracial American writer of Filipinx and European descent. She studied writing at the University of New Mexico and Antioch University Los Angeles while serving as an educator, after-school program director, and lost mitten finder at schools in Albuquerque, Chicago, and NYC. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. I’D RATHER BURN THAN BLOOM is her first novel.

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