About
Hi there!
I’m Shirah (Shy-ruh) — storyteller, reader, daydreamer, mother of four wildlings, keeper of one ditzy cat, and wife to a husband who is annoyingly good at everything.
I’m also a Jesus-loving California > Utah > Iceland transplant who has never quite figured out how to answer the deceptively simple question: “Where are you from?”
These days, I live off-grid in a small home tucked among Icelandic lupine fields, where the sea winds howl, the solar panels cross their fingers for sun, and the generator breaks just often enough to keep life interesting.
When I’m not wrangling my children, my characters, or my own sanity, you’ll usually find me writing whimsical but thought-provoking fantasy. Stories that wrestle with this complicated, beautiful world we live in. I write to explore big questions, to find hope in hard places, and to create the kinds of books that leave you changed (even just a little) after you close the book.
And when I’m not writing? I’m likely (begrudgingly) bossing up to some brave new challenge… and then quietly having a little cry about it behind the scenes. With peanut butter. Lots and lots of peanut butter.
So come in, make yourself a cup of tea, and stay a while. You are very welcome here.
Books That Changed Me on a Chemical Level (in no particular order)
- Eragon
- Bridge to Terrabithia
- The Outsiders
- Six Crimson Cranes
- The Hunger Games
(not an exhausive list)