Shira Shiloah

DR. SHIRA SHILOAH received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee and completed her Anesthesiology residency at Northwestern University.Shira's debut novel evolved from a short story written for the Annual National Medical Fiction Writing Competition for Physicians in 2007. After placing third in the contest, Shira discovered she enjoyed writing and carried on with the hobby for thirteen years before finalizing the manuscript that became EMERGENCE. Released in 2020, EMERGENCE, is a romantic thriller that explores what happens when a sociopathic neurosurgeon holds a scalpel to anesthetized patients.Shira lived in Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Chicago and Washington, D.C., before choosing Memphis as her hometown. She enjoys traveling the world with her husband and long meandering walks with her rescue pup.