| January 19, 2023
Memoir writer Shanda McManus compares the differences and similarities of her children to that of her three memoirs.
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Shanda McManus
Biography
Shanda McManus, a family medicine physician and native Philadelphian, writes about the intersection of life, race, and medicine. Her writing has appeared in Intima Journal of Narrative Medicine, Midnight & Indigo, Bellevue Literary Review, and swamp pink. Shanda has been a fellow with PEN America Emerging Voices in Creative Nonfiction and Baldwin For The Arts. Her debut memoir, Brother Epistles, is coming in June 2026 from Split Lip Press.
Twitter: @shandaMD
Website: shandamcmanus.com
Journal Entries
| December 15, 2022
Memoir Incubator co-leaders team up to talk about the "let down effect" they had after completing their memoir manuscripts.
| November 17, 2022
Through writing her memoir, book inc's Peer Artist Leader Shanda McManus realizes she has much to learn about listening.
| October 20, 2022
Memoir Incubator co-leader Shanda McManus relates her son's baby tooth extraction to her cutting "baby" prose as part of her memoir revision.
| September 15, 2022
Our Memoir Incubator leader talks about how sharing memoirs with our writing community can feel like being a participant on Naked and Afraid.