Shawna Kaszer writes emotionally layered books that unearth the hidden and hold it to the light. Her stories are rich with spiritual symbolism and meaning.

Haunting, healing, and calling you home.

Before books, Shawna worked in film and theater in Los Angeles and New York. She co-produced the award-winning documentary
All I Can Say, which tells the story of Blind Melon’s late frontman Shannon Hoon through his own footage. Directed by Danny Clinch, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2015, she co-founded KZR House, a story-driven agency, with her husband, crafting purpose-driven stories for global brands like UNICEF, Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez, and Bono’s EDEN.

Her current serialized novel, The Ponds, follows a woman returning home after her life unravels, only to uncover a haunting generational curse and a quiet path back to herself.

She’s currently at work on her next novel—a family drama exploring estrangement, legacy, and the quiet redemption that reshapes us from within.

When not writing, Shawna’s raising three young children with her husband. Homeschooling, dance-partying, tending her garden, baking something a little too sweet, and trying to live with intention and faith. She writes from a place of deep reflection and quiet strength, with just enough humor to survive it all. Her hope is to offer readers the same.