Jennifer Shahade, age 25 is a Women's Grandmaster, writer and two-time American Women's Chess Champion (2002, 2004).
Her first book, Chess Bitch: Women in the Ultimate Intellectual Sport, was published in the fall of 2005 (Siles Press.) She is currently the web editor for Chess Life Magazine, the national publication of USCF. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Chess Life Magazine, New In Chess, www.bookslut.com and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Shahade has taught chess to youngsters all over the country. She also performs simultaneous exhibitions in which she plays up to 50 people at once, in locations from Shanghai, China to Amherst College to her home-town Philly. She has participated in performance art projects at New York's psycho-geography festival, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Viewing Room Art Gallery and served as a juror for a design competition at the Noguchi Museum. She lives in Manhattan.