Shannon Cram is an associate professor at the University of Washington Bothell, where she teaches classes about the social life of science and technology. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California Berkeley.

Shannon’s essays have appeared in Public Culture, Environmental Humanities, Environment & Planning D, Fugue, River Teeth (Beautiful Things), Moss, and elsewhere. Her first book, Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility, won the Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award and was named one of the Best Indie Books of 2023 by Kirkus Reviews.