Shea Burchill (she/her), is a writer, award-winning essayist, and divorce lawyer who lives on the Front Range of Colorado with her husband and three dogs. She has two adult daughters.

Shea is the 2025 Fourth Genre Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest Winner and was a finalist for the 2025 Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction and the 2025 Reed Magazine Gabriele Rico Challenge for Nonfiction. Her writing has also appeared in Under the Sun and Marrow Magazine.