Adoptee Poets Department: A Discussion of Mirrors Made of Ink (Shannon’s Version)
June 26, 2024, Book Club presentation for Adoption Knowledge Affiliates
The Fictive Language of Adoption
June 2024, published in the spring edition of Connecting the Dots, a newsletter for the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing located within the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin.
Am I Grateful?
January 18, 2024, a guest blog post on Adoption Knowledge Affiliates’ blog.
In Defense of My Adoptive Parents
May 3, 2023, essay published with Severance Magazine
International Society for the Study of Narrative 2022 Conference Presentation
June 29, 2022, presented a shorter version of my thesis topic in Chichester, England.
Guest Blog: #Fairytale Tuesday: Dreams of the Ghost Kingdom
July 12, 2022, Guest Blog Post on Elizabeth Headrick's Steampunk Librarian Blog
Ghost Kingdoms: Filling the Gaps with Fiction
April 22, 2022, TWU's SmartTalks! hosted by the Women's Thought Leadership Program
Writing Heals
February 22, 2022, Guest Blog Post on Adoption Knowledge Affiliates (AKA) blog
What is a Mother? Or Who? Or How? Guest Blog Post by Shannon Quist
August 23, 2021 Guest Blog Post on Anne Heffron's blog
Opinion: Adoptees’ right to their birth certificates is long overdue
April 22, 2021 - My op-ed that was published in the Austin American-Statesman about HB1386.
How much did your baby cost? Countering the adoption fairytale
May 3, 2019 as part of TWU's first annual Smart Talk hosted by the ESFL (English, Speech, & Foreign Languages) department
