Aaron Shih is a college student with too little free time and too many story ideas. Thanks to his acquisition of a laptop that doesn't overheat, he has chosen to inflict said ideas upon the world.

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David Shih is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. His writing on race has appeared in the New York Times, NPR's Code Switch, Electric Literature, and Inside Higher Ed.

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Helen Shiller, raised by migrant Jewish parents, was radicalized by the anti-war and civil rights movements. Shiller was in a collective of whites aligned with the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Beginning in 1987, Shiller was a radical Chicago alderperson for twenty-four years.

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Randy Shilts (1951–1994) was a trailblazing American journalist and author who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle, creating the first gay beat in the newspaper world. Shilts also wrote three widely lauded bestselling books, including And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic.

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Kyung-Sook Shin is one of South Korea's most widely read and acclaimed novelists. She has been awarded the Man Asian Literary Prize, the Manhae Grand Prize for Literature, the Dong-in Literature Prize, the Yi Sang Literary Prize, and many others, including France's Prix de l'Inaperçu.

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T. M. Shine is an award-winning journalist and author based in southern Florida. A regular contributor to the Washington Post Magazine, his writing has also appeared in numerous other publications, including The Week, LA Weekly, and New Times.

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Emily Shiner lives in the mountains of North Carolina and loves hiking with her dogs—only when she's not thinking up twisted tales, that is. She loves books that keep you up long after you should be in bed.

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Sharon Shinn is the bestselling author of the Elemental Blessings novels, as well as the Shifting Circle novels. She has received an RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award and won the 2010 RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category.

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Florence Scovel Shinn (1871–1940) was an artist, author, and New Thought spiritual teacher. She self-published her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It, in 1925, and she published two more books during her lifetime. Her books have influenced millions and have never been out of print.

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Joseph T. Shipley is the author of the highly acclaimed In Praise of English as well as twenty-six other books, including The Quest for Literature, Dictionary of Word Origins, and Dictionary of Early English.

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Pat Shipman is an anthropologist and a retired adjunct professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of several books, including The Animal Connection, The Man Who Found the Missing Link, and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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James D. Shipman is the bestselling author of historical fiction, including the acclaimed novels Irena's War, Beyond the Wire, Task Force Baum, and Before the Storm. Please visit him online at james-shipman.com.

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