Ann Sheybani

Ann Sheybani is the author of How to Eat the Elephant: Build Your Book in Bite-Sized Steps. She helps speakers, coaches, and entrepreneurs write and publish books that will attract clients.

She is the founder of Build a Book Bootcamp, a 6-week virtual coaching program designed to transform cocktail napkin ideas into books; and co-director of The East Hill Writers' Workshops, a nurturing community for blossoming writers, which offers an assortment of local and virtual craft workshops.

She received her Masters in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard University. Her first publication, Not Without My Mother, appeared in The Charles River Review in the fall of 2002. You can find her blog, Things Mama Never Taught Me, at www.annsheybani.com. A frequent participant at Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, an Artist in Residency at Hambidge, founder of Haraji English School in Shiraz, Iran, certified as a secondary school English teacher, Sheybani loves words and languages and the writerly life.