Shechtman is the film editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and constructs crossword puzzles for The New Yorker and The New York Times.

[2] In 2020 she received her PhD in English literature and film and media studies from Yale University.

[3] She has been praised for including youthful references and lighthearted clues, such as [State of being awesome, in modern slang] for EPICNESS.

[5] Shechtman's memoir The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle was published on March 5, 2024.

[7] One figure she highlighted in the book is Margaret Farrar, the first editor of crossword puzzles for the New York Times.