Shawn Nocher

Shawn Nocher is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Hand to Hold in Deep Water . Her short stories and nonfiction articles have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly , Pithead Chapel , MoonPark Review , Writer's Digest , and Electric Literature , among others. She teaches in the master of arts writing program at Johns Hopkins University, has given wings to two children, and lives with her husband and an assortment of sassy rescue animals in Baltimore, Maryland, where she writes in a...See more

Shawn Nocher is the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Hand to Hold in Deep Water . Her short stories and nonfiction articles have been published in SmokeLong Quarterly , Pithead Chapel , MoonPark Review , Writer's Digest , and Electric Literature , among others. She teaches in the master of arts writing program at Johns Hopkins University, has given wings to two children, and lives with her husband and an assortment of sassy rescue animals in Baltimore, Maryland, where she writes in a room of her own. See less