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Josepha Sherman is a fantasy novelist, folklorist and editor, who has written everything from Star Trek novels to biographies of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) to titles such as Mythology for Storytellers (M. E. Sharpe, Inc.) and Trickster Tales (August House). She is the winner of the prestigious Compton Crook Award for best fantasy novel, and has had many titles on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list. Most current titles include Star Trek: Vulcan’s Soul: Exodus with Susan Shwartz, the reprint of the Unicorn Queen books from Del Rey and the forthcoming Stoned Souls with Mercedes Lackey, for Baen Books. She is also editing The Encyclopedia of Storytelling for M. E. Sharpe. For her other editorial projects, you can check out www.ShermanEditorialServices.com. When she isn’t busy writing, editing or gathering folklore, Sherman loves to travel, knows how to do Horse Whispering and has had a newborn foal fall asleep on her foot.
Diane Shipley is a freelance writer and pop culture obsessive who will never utter the words “it’s only a TV show.” Her idols include Brenda Walsh, Lorelai Gilmore, and Veronica Mars. When not writing or obsessively tweeting (@dianeshipley), she can usually be found eating pizza with a box set by her side (scheduled programming is for amateurs). Her website is www.dianeshipley.com.
John Shirley is the author of numerous novels and books of stories, including the novels Cellars, Wetbones, City Come A-Walkin’, Eclipse, A Splendid Chaos and the recent Bram Stoker AwardÐwinning Black Butterflies from Leisure. He was one of the original cyberpunk writers with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling. He was coscreenwriter of “The Crow” and has written scripts for television series and cable movies. He was lead singer and songwriter for various bands including the punk band SadoNation, the post-punk band Obsession (Celluloid records) and the post-cyberpunk band The Panther Moderns. MP3s of his work are to be found through links at the fan-created Web site www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley. His new novels for Del Rey books are Demons and Crawlers.
Robert L. Shook has been working full-time as an author since 1978. He has more than 50 published books to his credit, including four New York Times bestsellers. He is co-founder and past chairman of the board of Shook Associates Corporation, American Executive Corporation and American Executive Life Insurance Company. He has appeared on more than 600 radio and TV shows and outlets, including CNN and the “Today” show.
Terry Shook, FAIA, is one of America’s top placemakers. He’s a founding partner and principal of Shook Kelley, a renowned firm with offices in Charlotte and Los Angeles that integrates brand strategy, architecture, urban planning, and communication design. He’s convened neighborhoods and developers on projects in cities all across the United States, including transformational projects in Charleston, Charlotte, and Detroit. He is a lecturer at Harvard University and has been recognized by the Clinton Library and School of Public Service. Few people, if any, have more intimate knowledge of gentrification and the other challenges of progress in our vital cities.
Gena Showalter is the prolific author of sexy paranormal romances, fun contemporaries, an alien huntress series and young adult novels. For more information about Gena and her books, you can visit her Web site at www.genashowalter.com, her blog at www.genashowalter.blogspot.com and her MySpace page at www.myspace.com/genashowalter.
Elaine Shpungin, Ph.D., is the director of the Psychological Services Center, an outpatient community and mental health clinic and the training site for doctoral students in the clinical/community program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She shares House’s knack for reading people quickly, but usually manages to speak her mind with slightly more tact and diplomacy.
Joel N. Shurkin is currently Snedden Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is former science writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer and at Stanford University, was founder of Stanford’s science journalism internship program, and a freelance writer. He has written nine published books. He was a member of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island for the Inquirer. He is based in Baltimore.
