 In 2019, she was awarded the J S Knight fellowship at Stanford University.She now works as an independent journalist, social engagement artist, and human rights strategy consultant in Oakland, California.In 2014, Shourd co-authored a memoir titled A Sliver of Light with Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt in 2014 detailing their experience of being arrested and kept in solitary confinement in Iran under charges of espionage.