Shan Leah

Shan Leah's debut literary thriller, Thieves, Beasts & Men, was a Finalist in the 2021 American Fiction Awards for Best New Fiction, a Finalist for the 2021 Shelf Unbound Award for Best Fiction, and was shortlisted for the CIBA (Chanticleer International Book Award) Somerset Prize for Best Literary and Contemporary Fiction 2021.

Her second release, Bands of a Small Hurricane, was a Finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award, and was awarded the Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant for Literature in April 2022.

Her newest release launches the trilogy Sex for Poets, a "high art literary interpretation of erotica". Sex for Poets: The Awakening, the first of the series, is available now.

She's also a fine artist and freelance photograp

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