As a writer living in her home state of Maine, Shonna Milliken Humphrey slings words for cash, compassion, or glory. She also teaches, tell groups how to improve systems, and offers development consultation. She spends most of her days working at Bates College.
Shonna wears eyeglasses, too. Generally, big ones.
Shonna is the author of the novel, Show Me Good Land (Down East Books), and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, Down East, and Maine magazines. For two years, she contributed to The Maine Sunday Telegram as a food writer, and she led the posthumous publication effort for The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda written by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo.
Her memoir, Dirt Roads and Diner Pie (Central Recovery Press) chronicles a road trip through the southern United States with her husband as they dealt with the child sex abuse he saw, heard, feared, and experienced while a student at New Jersey's now-defunct American Boychoir School.
Shonna wrote Gin as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lesson series, and her latest project is a contribution to the anthology, Breaking Bread (Beacon Press) to benefit Blue Angel Maine, a hunger relief organization.
Shonna wears eyeglasses, too. Generally, big ones.
Shonna is the author of the novel, Show Me Good Land (Down East Books), and her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, Down East, and Maine magazines. For two years, she contributed to The Maine Sunday Telegram as a food writer, and she led the posthumous publication effort for The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda written by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo.
Her memoir, Dirt Roads and Diner Pie (Central Recovery Press) chronicles a road trip through the southern United States with her husband as they dealt with the child sex abuse he saw, heard, feared, and experienced while a student at New Jersey's now-defunct American Boychoir School.
Shonna wrote Gin as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lesson series, and her latest project is a contribution to the anthology, Breaking Bread (Beacon Press) to benefit Blue Angel Maine, a hunger relief organization.
