Shannon Young is an American twenty-something living in Hong Kong. She is the editor of an anthology of creative non-fiction by expat women in Asia called How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? and the author of a Kindle Single called Pay Off: How One Millennial Eliminated Nearly $80,000 in Student Debt in Less Than Five Years. She has written e-books including a mini travel memoir, The Olympics Beat, and a novella, The Art of Escalator Jumping. Her memoir, Year of Fire Dragons: An American Woman's Story of Coming of Age in Hong Kong, will be published by Blacksmith Books in November 2014.

A graduate of Colgate University in New York, Shannon's writing has appeared in the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society's anthology, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, Modern Love Long Distance and The Displaced Nation. She writes a blog called A Kindle in Hong Kong and likes to spy on other people's books on the train.