Sally Shields's Biography

Sally Shields is an author, speaker, award-winning pianist and composer. Author of A Pond Beneath the Moon (a poetry book heavily influenced by quantum physics), she is the recipient of the Editor's Choice Award from the International Library of Poetry, and a frequent contributor to various magazines. Winner of the 17th annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition, her first book, Modern Jazz Piano, is the standard theory manual for several music programs, including Princeton University. She performs worldwide, most recently with bestselling author and musician James McBride. Shields was a finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and her music is currently featured on the ABC TV daytime drama All My Children. Her latest book is THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW RULES: 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Make Friends with) Your Mother-in-Law! and is currently following it up with, The Collaborator Rules: 101 Surefire Ways to Manage (and Stay Friends with) Your Co-Author!