SHAWNA KENNEY has worked as a waitress, nanny, librarian, typist, hotline operator, production assistant, cashier, reading tutor, receptionist, swimming instructor and dominatrix. She is now a freelance writer and photographer, and lives in Los Angeles. I Was a Teenage Dominatrix won the Firecracker 'Best Sex Book' Award and was nominated as the book 'Most likely to be Banned' by Independent Publishers in the US.