Shelley Stoehr is the author of four award-winning young adult novels from the 1990s and many short works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She has received awards from The de Groot Foundation, The North American Review, New Millenium Writings, Writer's Digest, WOW: Women on Writing, The New York Public Library, and the ALA. Shelley's memoir, Girls Girls Girls: One Woman's Experience as a Sex Worker in the 1990s, will be published by Legacy Book Press in September 2026.