News & events - sheilagrinell

Coming events:

9/13/25 – Anticus Gallery, Scottsdale AZ: launch of PROMISE IN THE DESERT, 2:00 – 5:00pm
9/21/25 – Brooklyn Book Festival, NYC: signing copies of PROMISE IN THE DESERT, 2:00pm
9/23/25 – Foothills Library, Glendale AZ: talk about "Writing as a Second Act," 2:00 – 3:00pm

Latest news:

PODCAST with Zibby Owens, award-winning podcaster at Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books (video, 20 minutes). We talked about my origins and the origins of my writing.
Interview with Helene Stelian (PRINT) about my journey from museum leader to novelist. A few resources for change-minded women are included.

Archive:

Mesa Tribune article about me as Writer-in-Residence, Spring 2021 at the Mesa Public Library.
KJZZ's Soundbite program interviewed me in their series on writers and their libraries (15 minutes).
Read "Am I Proud? Yes and No" comparing my senses of accomplishment as a novelist vs. museum leader.
Read "One Year Post Publication" for how Appetite, my debut novel, fared in year one.
Read my essay "The Truth about Millennials in the Workplace" in Women For Hire.
Read " How Arizona Science Center's Founding CEO Found Fiction at 63" in Phoenix New Times.
Listen to my interview on KJZZ, an NPR station in Phoenix, about starting a new career in my sixties.