Marie Shield retired from her day job in 2003 to become a writer. Her short stories have recently been published in Long Story Short,
The MacGuffin, Insolent Rudder, Houston Literary Review, Timber Creek Review, Apollo's Lyre, Stymie Magazine, Linnet's Wings, and others. Excerpts from a novel in revision have been published in the anthologies See You Next Tuesday, Pen-siev and others. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband Michael.
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