Shaun Perkins is the director/founder of the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry in Locust Grove. She is a poet, storyteller, newspaper columnist, and teaching artist with the Oklahoma Arts Council. She has published a variety of books, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. For many years, she has been a Woody Guthrie Poet at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. Her poetry has won numerous awards, including the San Francisco Writers Conference Award, which she won two times. She is the longtime webmaster and liaison for the Territory Tellers, Oklahoma’s state storytelling organization. For more information, visit POEMLIFE.org.

In addition to loving the Perry Mason mysteries, Shaun has written three books in a series that are detective stories in verse. The book’s protagonist, a used bookstore owner, is inspired by Perry Mason and renamed herself after him. More on these books can be found at TheBookWith.com.