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Shannon Ellis has an undergraduate degree in Creative and Media writing and a Masters in both Creative Writing and Film & Television from the University of Portsmouth. She was a writer and founding member of the blog 99 Plots, as well as a contributor to the university news site The Galleon during her studies.

While she enjoys writing short stories and prose, her real passion lies within the realm of television and visual media. She very much likes to talk incessantly about her favourite television programmes, and has been known to take them too seriously at times.

She hopes to some day become a screenwriter, as well as a real adult.

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