Inspired by Southern women, Shawn’s characters oscillate between self-destructive perfectionists & scrappy idealists.

These singular voices mirror the women she knows: too good, too human, too hard on themselves.
Yet full of so much hope.

Shawn writes what she knows and therefore leans into real, imagined, & heightened pressures women of color carry ever so lightly.

A simple mission, no? To debunk the weightiness of all that weight.

Comedy is a merciful back door allowing her characters to “meet” themselves for the first time.

Before the world told them who they should be.