[Short Stories, Novel, Creative Writing]

M Shelly Conner uses her experiences as a dapperqueer Black woman to produce multi-genre works that examine intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Her collection of writing spans multiple media and a range of publications, including "Black From the Future: A Collection of Speculative Fiction."

As a whole, Shelly's writing makes queer interventions in a tradition of storytelling about Black life and families from Jim Crow South to south side Chicago.