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Shawn Smucker biography

Shawn Smucker is an American novelist and co-writer whose work spans young adult-leaning fantasy, literary suspense and memoir. He began his career in 2008 collaborating on life stories and memoirs before releasing his own fiction.

Smucker first self-published The Day the Angels Fell in 2014; Revell (Baker Publishing Group) later acquired the novel and issued a trade edition in 2017, followed by the sequel The Edge of Over There (2018). Subsequent novels include Light from Distant Stars (2019), These Nameless Things (2020) and The Weight of Memory (2021). His nonfiction includes the friendship memoir Once We Were Strangers (2018).

Alongside writing books, Smucker continues to co-write and ghostwrite across genres for individuals and organisations. He also co-hosts the long-running podcast The Stories Between Us, which features conversations about creativity and the writing life, and he is involved in independent bookselling.

Selected works: The Day the Angels Fell (Revell, 2017); The Edge of Over There (Revell, 2018); Light from Distant Stars (Revell, 2019); These Nameless Things (Revell, 2020); The Weight of Memory (Revell, 2021); memoir Once We Were Strangers (Revell, 2018).