Mary Shotwell is the author of small-town romances for every season. The third book in her new small-town contemporary romance series Waverly Lake, Christmas Island, is a 2023 Rone Award Finalist. Her first romance novel, Christmas Catch (Carina Press, 2018), received a starred review from Library Journal and was a 2019 Golden Leaf Award finalist for Best First Book. Several nonfiction stories can be seen in multiple editions of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

As M.E. Shotwell, she pens dark fantasy and horror for adults and teens. Several of her short stories have been published, including “A Sailor’s Curse,” featured as the finale in Under the Full Moon’s Light Anthology (Owl Hollow Press, 2018). Her debut Adult Fantasy novel Mist and Divide, the first in the Soulquake series, releases Fall 2025 (City Owl Press).

She loves incorporating her science and nature background into her fiction. When adulting, she’s a wife to husband Matt and mother to three children. She currently resides in Brentwood, Tennessee.