Alex Sheshunoff

Alex is the author of a memoir called, A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything So You Too Can:

- Wear a Loincloth
- Read a Hundred Books
- Diaper a Baby Monkey
- Build a Bungalow

And Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love!*

* Individual results may vary.

His writing has also appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Slate.com, Marketplace, and other very, very prestigious media outlets. Before deciding to call himself a writer, Alex snuck through Yale and started and ran a company in New York called E-The People.com - a precursor to Moveon.org but with a pun in its name.

Because of his unique last name, Alex is often asked if he's somehow related to Ian Shenanigan Sheshunoff, the first-place winner of the Diaper Derby Crawling Contest at the 2008 Alaska State Fair. They are indeed related. Ian is his son. Today, Alex and his wife, Sarah, live in Ojai, California with Ian and his equally talented brother, Andrew Commissioner.