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About Sharon

Sharon’s work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Spillway, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Jet Fuel Review, Calyx, JAMA, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Healing Muse and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee as well as an award-winning haiku poet and frequent contributor to haiku journals including Modern Haiku and Frogpond.  She is the editor of filling in the sky (2021), the Two Autumns Reading Series anthology sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California. Sharon specializes in working with senior citizens and, for many years, taught poetry workshops in assisted living facilities. She continues to work as a medical social worker at a large county hospital where she’s had the pleasure of leading a longstanding poetry class for the patients. For many years, she edited Kaleidoscope, an anthology of the patients’ poems. She lives in San Francisco, CA with her husband.