Shift: A Novel

About the Authors

TIM KRING is one of the creative community’s original transmedia storytellers using film, TV, broadband, computers, mobile devices, and the printed page to engage audiences around the world in narrative and immersive story arcs. Internationally, 76 million fans know Tim’s work as the creator and executive producer of Heroes, NBC’s Emmy-nominated epic saga that chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities.

Kring has written numerous feature films, series pilots, and television movies. Before creating Heroes, he was a producer for television shows including Chicago Hope and Providence. He also created the procedural drama Crossing Jordan.

Kring studied film at Allan Hancock Junior College and then the University of Southern California’s renowned film school. After graduation he worked his way up in production as a grip, a gaffer, and on camera crews.

Kring resides in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa, a social worker, and their two children. In his spare time, he enjoys photography and collecting acoustic guitars.

DALE PECK is the author of nine books, including, most recently, Body Surfing and Sprout, both novels. His fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including Atlantic Monthly, the London Review of Books, and the New York Times. Since 1999, he has taught in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program. A co-founder of the Mischief and Mayhem writing collective, he lives in New York City.