Denise Shekerjian is the author of two works of nonfiction including Uncommon Genius, which is a narrative look at how great ideas are born. Her essays and short stories have earned two Pushcart Prize nominations and have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Crab Orchard Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Chariton Review, Puerto del Sol, The Distillery, Inkwell, The Baltimore Review, Confluence, The North Dakota Quarterly, Lalitamba Mandarim, Primer Stories and other literary journals.