Sharon is a widely published poet and her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals including Spillway, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The MacGuffin, Calyx, JAMA, The Bellevue Literary Review and others. She has received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations and was nominated for the Best New Poets 2024 Magazine. She is also an award-winning haiku poet and frequent contributor to haiku journals including Modern Haiku and Frogpond. In 2018, Sharon was selected as one of four poets for Open Iris, the Two Autumns Press chapbook published by Haiku Poets of Northern California. She had the pleasure of editing filling in the sky, the 2021 Two Autumns Press chapbook. She holds a masters of social work degree from UC Berkeley and spent the majority of her career at a large county hospital in San Francisco. There, she had the pleasure of leading a longstanding poetry class for the patients. For many years, she edited Kaleidoscope, an anthology of the patients’ poems. Sharon has also taught poetry workshops in assisted living facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is grateful to her many poetry teachers and mentors including Kathleen McClung, Brian Tierney, Kim Addonizio, Ellen Bass, and Katharine Harer. She is a native San Franciscan and continues to live in the city, enjoying the coastal fog and breezes.