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 recently led the posthumous effort to find a publisher for The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda  written by her dear friend, 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's latest project is Gin, as part of Bloomsbury's Object Lesson series, forthcoming in Fall 2020.