Shawn · Author
The author
I write fiction about what it costs to love deeply and what it gives back.
I'm Shawn — an urban fantasy writer based in Oklahoma. My debut novel is about a neurodivergent non-binary linguist who loses almost everything and discovers, on the other side of that loss, that she was right about things the world told her were impossible.
It is a book about grief. About suicide and the impossible weight it leaves on the people who loved that person. About loving someone who hurt you and understanding, eventually, why — without erasing what they did. About the specific devastation of losing an autistic safe person. About polyamory done honestly. About a found family built from witches, werewolves, vampires, and Vodou practitioners — every kind of person the world decided didn't belong.
At its center is a love story between two people who had both stopped believing they were allowed to want something like this. It is, underneath all the linguistics and the supernatural and the mystery, a book about healing. About what happens when someone finally sees all of you.