Deirdre Shaw's first novel is Love or Something Like It, published by Random House. Her fiction has appeared in Folio and Swink, and her nonfiction in The New York Times and The New York Observer. She has held fiction residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Her fiction was included in the New Short Fiction Series Emerging Voices Group Show in L.A. in 2005. She grew up in New York and was a newspaper journalist for several years at The Keene (N.H.) Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer before moving to Los Angeles, where she has written for television.