Shea Ernshaw is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestselling author known for her novels The Wicked Deep and Long Live The Pumpkin Queen, which was a sequel to Tim Burton's classic film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Her books have been published in over twenty countries, and her novels A History of Wild Places, The Wicked Deep, and Winterwood were Indie Next Picks.
The Wicked Deep won the Oregon Book Award for Young Readers in 2019.