Shannon Amidon Castille is the editor of the Monterey News. She has worked in university communications/marketing in Washington state and Hawai’i, and was an editor and writer for daily newspapers and a regional cultural arts magazine in Louisiana. She is an award-winning poet, and health and medical writer. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Inland Northwest Writers’ Center at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. She lives with her husband and two boys in Monterey, Mass.
