Katy Morlas Shannon

Katy Morlas Shannon is the author of Antoine of Oak Alley: The Unlikely Origin of Southern Pecans and the Enslaved Gardener Who Cultivated Them, which won the 2022 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for best biography. She was instrumental in the early stages of research for Whitney Plantation, created a searchable online database of more than four hundred enslaved individuals at Evergreen Plantation, and co-curated an exhibit about the enslaved community at Laura Plantation. Katy lives in Mandeville, Louisiana, with her husband and three children.