Shawn Bird is a high school English teacher and author in the beautiful Shuswap region of British Columbia. She loves her students and promises to keep teaching even if she wins (or earns!) a million dollars. She may hire a marker and will definitely take longer holidays, but she’ll still teach English for as long as the school district lets her!
She is excited about the growing success of Grace Awakening. It is a multi-layered allegorical novel that is gathering a keen fan base across North America and in Europe. It was written as a YA (Young Adult) novel, but it definitely crosses genres and ages. Grace Awakening is Twilight meets Percy Jackson. Check out the details on the Grace Awakening page linked above.
Shawn is big into federations. She is a member of both the BC Teachers’ Federation and the Federation of BC Writers. For good measure, she is also a member of the Shuswap Association of Writers, since it is always good to associate with other writers!
Shawn is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Salmon Arm (Shuswap) and a former Rotary Youth Exchange Student to Finland. This suggests that people believe she is a responsible member of society. She is conversationally fluent in two languages besides English, and dabbles at a variety of others. She loves language and communicating across cultures.
She has one handsome, amazing, thoughtful husband (he does laundry!), two unique and independent human children, and two appropriately worshipful,
delightfully curly canine children. The canine children used to number three, but one is buried in the back yard now. There are no human children buried in the back yard.
You may notice the harp in the back of the poodle photo. Shawn used to play the harp much better than she does now, but unfortunately, to continue to play well it is necessary to practise! BC harpists will remember Shawn from her years of writing for the now defunct BC Harps Newsletter and her activity on the MIT Harp List, also defunct and much mourned.
Shawn likes to create. She knits, sews, does embroidery, paints, and collects shoes, particularly shoes that are functional art. You will find examples of her assorted projects throughout the blog. (See the Project section).
You may enjoy the Alpha-biography section of the blog. This is a personal observation for each letter of the alphabet. In Shawn’s case, these are connected to Greek mythology and the development of Grace Awakening.
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“she may hire a marker”
What will happen to me?!
Get yourself a teaching degree so I can hire you when I have that million! It’s way more fun to mark that to just record the grades. I promise. (Ech hem. Don’t notice my fingers crossed behind my back).
Thanks for the wonderful intro. You have such enthusiasm. Wonderful!
Love the pups. Beautiful region you live in.
You sound like someone I would like to know (beyond similar tastes in blog templates. I’ll be back soon. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Hi Shawn, I had a good chuckle reading your About page and finding out your interests and passions. As past president of my Rotary Club, I love meeting others who’ve “been there… done that.”
lol Here’s a secret: when I am faced with stress, I escape into magical fictional worlds. I wrote Grace Awakening over 6 months in the middle of my club presidency. Coincidence? I think not!
Hi Shawn
I am doing my invocation tomorrow for the Las Vegas Rotary Club. I love doing the invocation and spent time researching it. I also believe that giving thanks is always appropriate but never specify any particular deity. In fact, I have run the gamut from Zen and Buddhist to US Presidents inaugural addresses to ancient Celtic Blessings. I found your website while searching for a Peace Prayer given the recent events in Norway. I am going to use your Peace Invocation tomorrow – love the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Thanks Debbie, pleased to share with you and Las Vegas Rotary!