Shauna James Ahern

SHAUNA JAMES AHERN started her professional career as a child actor in Los Angeles, in the late 1970s. You might have seen her on Rhoda, where she played Amy Finkelstein, the girl who ate crayons. After that, she taught high school English, ran a screenplay editing business in Manhattan, then taught more students how to write research papers. Now she is considered one of the most authoritative sources of gluten-free living on the Internet. (Who saw that coming?) Her popular Web site, glutenfreegirl.com, was named one of the best food sites in the world by Gourmet.com, Bon Appetit.com, and The London Times. Her first book, Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back and How You Can Too (Wiley and Sons, 2007) is now in paperback. Her cookbook, Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef: A Love Story in 100 Tempting Recipes (Wiley and Sons, 2010), written with her husband Daniel, was named one of the best cookbooks of 2010 by The New York Times.

She currently lives on an island off Seattle with her husband, Daniel Ahern, a professional chef, and their toddler daughter, Lucy. They are happy and sleep-deprived.