Shannon Ravenel (born August 13, 1938),"Ravenel, Shannon". Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved May 7, 2022. née Harriett Shannon Ravenel, is an American literary editor and co-founder of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. There she edited the annual anthology New Stories from the South from 1986 to 2006. She was series editor of the Houghton Mifflin annual anthology The Best American Short Stories from 1977 to 1990.
