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Shana Mahaffey is an American author. Her debut novel Sounds Like Crazy was a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book for Fall 2009. The novel is as a darkly comic and ultimately healing story about Holly Miller, an Emmy Award winning cartoon voiceover performer who has actual voices in her head, multiple personalities who make her career a huge success, and shield her from a terrible secret in her past.

Mahaffey’s work has also appeared in publications such as Sunset Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Spectrum Literary Journal, Reflections Literary Journal, and assorted literary blogs. She has also spoken at Litquake and the Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival. In addition to writing fiction, Shana has contributed articles, white papers, and product reviews to various technology publications.

Mahaffey has completed graduate work at the New School for Social Research and has a BA from University of California, Santa Barbara. She resides in San Francisco.