Shauna O'Meara

Hailing from the parched wheat-belt of country Western Australia, Shauna O’Meara’s childhood was spent roaming rugged, hilly paddocks and the seasonal river below her home with her dogs, concocting wild fugitive stories along the way. This love of nature and story-telling persisted well past her childhood and, despite a busy career as a practicing veterinarian, Shauna has continued to dedicate much of her time to writing and artwork and trekking through the beautiful Australian wilderness.

Shauna placed second in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future Contest with a short story that can be found in Volume 30 of Writers and Illustrators of the Future. Shauna recently completed the artwork for a short comic commissioned by Midnight Echo magazine (due out 2014-2015) and has contributed the cover and interior artwork to several Australian speculative fiction anthologies.

She has just completed her first novel – a science-fiction crime novel set in a post-global-warming America – and has a head full of tales just waiting to be committed to print.

You can visit Shauna online at:

http://theshaunacorner.wordpress.com/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/117588964@N07/