38 Books Before Graduation: A Teen Author's Journey with Shanti Hershenson
Shanti Hershenson has been creating stories since she could hold a crayon, and published her first two novellas back in the sixth grade. Now eighteen and a senior in high school, she's written 38 books, with 22 published, across science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary genres, and she's built a following of over 50,000 on TikTok while also advocating against bullying in schools.
In this episode, Shanti shares how her writing has evolved since she first started as a young child, why she chose to write her novel-in-poetry, You Won't Know Her Name, about middle school bullying, and how she…
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