Shannon Reed

Shannon Reed is a playwright, essayist and writer of short stories. Her work has recently appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Billfold, Terrain Journal and Hot Metal Bridge. She's at work on her first novel. Read her full bio here.

Features, MotherhoodOctober 8, 2014

The Cloister and the Cradle

By Shannon Reed

2007. I’m teaching at Stella Maris, a small girls’ Catholic high school in Queens. Many of my colleagues are nuns.