Bio

Sharon Harrigan has a B.A. in English from Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. She has published over three dozen essays, reviews, and short stories. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Slice, Narrative, Pearl, Prime Number, Silk Road, Mid American Review, Apercus Quarterly, Rain Taxi, Hip Mama, Fiction Writers’ Review, The Nervous Breakdown, and The Rumpus. She was a fellow at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a Ted Berrigan Scholar at Naropa University. She has given poetry readings at The Poetry Project at St. Marks, Detroit Institute of Arts, and many other places. Her poems have appeared in The World, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Telephone, Sentience, and Red Weather. Her journalism includes feature articles and a monthly column in Albemarle Family and Charlottesville Family magazines. She is also a freelance editor and is working on a novel.

Sharon worked as a managing editor and senior editor in New York City before moving to Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband and two children. She and her husband are currently spending a sabbatical year in Paris.