Sharon Darrow
Sharon Darrow, photo courtesy of the author.
Sharon Darrow taught writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts for over twenty years, and taught at Columbia College Chicago, College of DuPage, Waubonsee Community College, and various conferences and retreats. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Rhino, Folio, Another Chicago Magazine (ACM), Columbia Poetry Review, Great River Review, Other Voices, Writers' Chronicle, In the Middle of the Middle West (Indian Univ. Press) and Home to Me: Poems Across America (Orchard).
She is the author of Old Thunder and Miss Raney (D-K Ink), a finalist for a Western Writers of America award; Yafi’s Family (Amharic Kids), winner of Skipping Stones and Mother’s Choice Awards and finalist for two Midwest Independent Publisher’s Awards; Through the Tempests Dark and Wild: A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein (Candlewick Press), a Junior Literary Guild Selection; a novel, The Painters of Lexieville (Candlewick), named to KLIATT's Editors' Choice-Best of the Year YA Fiction list and the winner of the Oklahoma Book Award; and a long narrative in poems, TRASH (Candlewick), a Junior Literary Guild selection and finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers. Her latest books are Worlds Within Words: Writing and the Writing Life; now in a far sky: Vermont Poems; and Rainbow a Poem (all from Pudding Hill Press).
She was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, lived much of her adult life in the Chicago area, and now lives in Vermont.
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