Shawn ShiflettSHAWN SHIFLETT is a professor in the Fiction Writing department at Columbia College Chicago. Hidden Place is his first novel; he is working on a second novel, Hey, Liberal, about a white boy in a predominantly Afrian American high school one year after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Shiflett was born and raised in Chicago, and currently lives in La Grange, Illinois with his wife and two children. Read More Read Less