Deirdre Shaw

Deirdre Shaw's author website: http://www.deirdreshaw/com

Deirdre Shaw's first novel, Love or Something Like It, will be published by Random House in April. "This emotionally honest, clear-eyed debut follows a thirtysomething woman forced to redefine love, career, and family after her young marriage falters."

Her fiction has... more »

Deirdre Shaw's author website: http://www.deirdreshaw/com

Deirdre Shaw's first novel, Love or Something Like It, will be published by Random House in April. "This emotionally honest, clear-eyed debut follows a thirtysomething woman forced to redefine love, career, and family after her young marriage falters."

Her fiction has appeared in Folio and Swink, and her nonfiction in The New York Times and The New York Observer. She has held fiction residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her fiction was included in the New Short Fiction Series Emerging Voices Group Show in L.A. in 2005, and she was awarded a 2004 Hackney Literary Award for National Short Story. She grew up in New York and was a newspaper journalist for several years at The Keene (N.H.) Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer before moving to Los Angeles, where she has written for television. « less