John Shea

John Shea was born in Rome, graduated from Columbia College, and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, where he now works as an editor and writer.  He may be the only person to have published stories in both Partisan Review and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.  His story "The Real World" received an honorable mention from Writer's Digest; was published in Columbia; and was later performed as part of Writing Aloud, a program of InterAct Theatre Company of Philadelphia.  The Café Irreal ran his "How to Make Something Out of Nothing," one of a series of "Instructions" on "Matters, Large, Small, and Scarcely Conceivable."  In 2005, he won second prize in the Philadelphia City Paper fiction competition, and his story "The Bus Ride" appeared in Shadow Regions, a horror anthology, in 2006.