Shann Nix

Shann Nix, Writer and Performance Coach, is the co-author, with Peter Meyers, of As We Speak. She is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and a novelist, playwright and radio talk show host. As the youngest female newstalk host in the U.S., Shann hosted her own radio show for 10 years on KGO, the number-one station in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Shann went undercover posing as a high school senior for a front-page series on education, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and later turned into the movie Never Been Kissed, starring Drew Barrymore. Shann’s columns and social commentaries have been reprinted widely in anthologies, and her novel,Wildcatting, published by Doubleday in 1993, went to number one on the Italian bestseller list.