Shonna Milliken Humphrey

Shonna Milliken Humphrey, former executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, is the author of the novel Show Me Good Land and memoir Dirt Roads and Diner Pie. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, Down East, and Beer & Weed magazine. She played a key role in the posthumous publication of The Afterlife of Kenzaburo Tsuruda written by Elisabeth Wilkins Lombardo, and for two years, she was a food writer for The Maine Sunday Telegram. Her most recent book, Gin, is part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Shonna also contributed to Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family.