Germaine Shames is a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, AZ Literary Fellow, Kilroys List playwright, and Puffin Foundation grantee, writes across art forms and genres to conjure the possible world. Her plays, musicals, operas and choral works have premiered across the United States as well as abroad and been featured at such festivals as Fulton New Works. NJ Theatre Alliance Stages, and the Festival of New American Theatre.​​

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After covering world conflicts as a correspondent and witnessing firsthand the gamut of senseless tragedies behind the headlines, she realized that hard news could never convey an iota of the deeper story she was gleaning. She turned to fiction writing, learning that she can find light in the most horrific situations and leave readers, and now an audience, with hope. Shames holds a Master’s degree in Intercultural Studies. She writes from a global perspective with the conscious aim of fostering interethnic, intergenerational and cross-gender understanding. It's all about love.