Germaine W. Shames has written from six continents--soon to add the seventh--on topics ranging from the Middle East crisis to Aboriginal land rights, from the struggle to save the Amazon to the plight of street children.
Shames, holder of Arizona's Literary Fellowship in Fiction, is author of the critically-acclaimed novel Between Two Deserts (Macadam/Cage Publishing, Fall 2002), two earlier nonfiction books, and three feature screenplays.
Her articles have appeared in such publications as National Geographic Traveler, More, Success, Hemispheres, Diversion, Blue, Troika, Rotarian, Longevity, Byline, New Jersey Monthly, Palm Beach Illustrated, Tucson Monthly, Oakland Tribune, Providence Journal and many others. Her essays and short fiction have been widely anthologized.
She holds a masters degree in International Management. As a global executive and, later, as a foreign correspondent, Shames has lived and worked in such diverse locations as the Australian outback, the Swiss Alps, the interior of Bularia, the coast of Colombia, the Fiji Islands, and the Gaza Strip. She brings a tender acuity to her journalism and has made a mission of covering under-reported stories of grassroots activism and everyday heroism. Her fiction writing reflects the breadth of her worldview and fascination with the interplay of cultures, often drawing on events and settings from her sojourns abroad.
The author resides in Tucson, Arizona and London, England. Current projects include The Abstract Life, a literary ghost novel chronicling the lives of a family of artists swept up in Abstract Expressionism's histrionic rise and fall, and the screenplay The Degenerates, a drama-thriller set in Bohemian Paris on the brink of the Second World War. She is represented by Rob Weisbach Literary Management.
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