Mike Shenk is the puzzle editor for The Wall Street Journal and one of the country’s most versatile and prolific puzzle constructors. He provided a stunning assortment of pencil puzzles for Games magazine and its offshoots for 16 years, even while constructing daily crosswords for a major newspaper syndicate; over the course of his long career, he has published over 12,000 puzzles (and that's just counting the crosswords). Mike lives in New York.

Mike Shenk is the puzzle editor for The Wall Street Journal and one of the country’s most versatile and prolific puzzle constructors. He provided a stunning assortment of pencil puzzles for Games magazine and its offshoots for 16 years, even while constructing daily crosswords for a major newspaper syndicate; over the course of his long career, he has published over 12,000 puzzles (and that's just counting the crosswords). Mike lives in New York.