Shea Serrano was born on 1981 and is an American author, journalist, and former teacher.
16 Facts About Shea Serrano
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Shea Serrano was born in San Antonio, Texas and grew up in the neighborhood of Valley Hi.
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Shea Serrano graduated from Sam Houston State University, where he majored in psychology.
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Shea Serrano taught 8th grade science at a Title 1 school in Houston for nine years.
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Shea Serrano began writing in 2007 as a way to supplement his family's income when his wife, pregnant with twins, was put on bedrest.
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Shea Serrano predominately wrote about hip-hop after noticing that the majority of the writers only wrote about rock music despite the fact Houston is a cornerstone of southern rap music.
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Shea Serrano continued to earn national attention with his pieces about his children and stories about the songs played at his school dance and birthday party.
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In July 2016, Shea Serrano moved with much of the Grantland team to Bill Simmons' new entertainment platform, The Ringer.
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Shea Serrano has written for GQ, ESPN, LA Weekly, XXL, Rolling Stone, MTV, and Vice.
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The work was a collaboration with Houston rapper Bun B, although Shea Serrano wrote and illustrated the book himself.
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In October 2017, ABC Studios ordered a pilot for the show, written by Shea Serrano and produced by Shea Serrano and Michael Schur.
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In 2020, Shea Serrano founded a publishing house called Halfway Books, operated from his Gumroad website.
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Shea Serrano had previously published two illustrated essay collections on the site, on the television shows The Office and Scrubs.
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Shea Serrano holds court daily on matters ranging from basketball to Taco Bell to Young Thug to parenting to the injustices of unpaid content creation.
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On 20 March 2016, Shea Serrano announced a weekly newsletter "Basketball ", which came out every Tuesday, focused on the National Basketball Association.
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On 27 March 2017, Shea Serrano mobilized the FOH ARMY again, this time to help one former student fund a trip to Turkey she was hoping to take to help teach children there English.