B. B. Shamp

B.B. Shamp grew up in the Washington, D.C. metro area, a victim of wholesale parochial education offset by a wild imagination and a burgeoning resistance to uniformity. She began journaling at the age of nine, wrote her first short story based on Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' at eleven, then dusted off her hands and put it in a drawer. Years later, a career teaching public high school ended when she fell off a ladder, blew a slew of pulmonary embolisms and suffered a near death experience. Rehabilitation included journaling, and suddenly she was reborn to what she loved best: writing.

Her first contemporary mystery/suspense novel, 'The Third Haven' earned First Place with both Delaware Press Association and the National Federation of Press Women. A sequel, 'The Grist Mill Bone', was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award and Eric Hoffer's Da Vinci Eye Award for cover design.

B.B. Shamp lives on a tidal bay where a moment of Zen can be found in the tilt of the blue heron's long neck, a broad sweep of serrated clouds, or a mundane conversation about crabs with a local waterman. Her passions include environmental advocacy, improving education policy, and providing college scholarships to young women. She is forevermore, a writer.