Sharma Shields
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Sharma Shields

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Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster, and two novels, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac and The Cassandra. Sharma’s writing has appeared in Electric Lit, Slice, The New York Times, Slate, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere, and has garnered such awards as the Washington State Book Award, the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and now lives in Spokane with her husband and two young children. She is the Board President for the Friends of the Spokane County Library District and has also served on the programming committee for Spokane's Spark Central. Representation: Julie Stevenson with MMQLit.
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