[1] Lambert's writing has appeared in many prominent periodicals and literary journals including Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story,[2] Toronto Life[3] and The Walrus.
The Hamilton Spectator wrote of The Falling Woman: "In Shaena Lambert we have a writer with the ability to layer experience so that one layer comments on another, a writer with Alice Munro's understanding of the human heart and Yann Martel's gift for inhabiting the minds of vastly different characters."
Lambert's novel, Radiance,[7][8] was published in 2007 by Random House Canada, and by Virago Press in the U.K, again meeting with critical acclaim, and comparisons to Canadian writers Alice Munro and Carol Shields.
[9] Writing in The Globe and Mail, American novelist Richard Bausch called Radiance "a marvellous feat of imagining".
[10] Radiance tells the story of Hiroshima survivor named Keiko Kitigawa, who travels to the U.S. from Japan after the end of World War II, and the complex relationship she has with a Long Island housewife.