Shannon Selin

Historical fiction writer Shannon Selin is the author of Napoleon in America (January 2014), which imagines what might have happened if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from exile on St. Helena and wound up in the United States in 1821. Her short stories have appeared in The Copperfield Review and CommuterLit. Shannon blogs about interesting things she has come across in her research at shannonselin.com.

Shannon holds a master's degree in political science, specializing in international relations. She lives with her family in Vancouver, Canada, where she is working on the next novel in her Napoleon series.