About Sharon

Sharon Chmielarz has had poems published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent, Margie, The Hudson Review, Commonweal, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, The Seneca Review, Louisiana Literature and many others. She’s had three children’s picture books published and travel memoirs anthologized in The House on Via Gombito, Talking of Hands, and Inn Near Kyoto. She’s received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, MN State Arts Board and Region 2 grants. A finalist in the National Poetry Series, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in ’99, ’01, ’02, ’05, ’07, and ’10. She’s been featured on “American Life in Poetry” and translated into French and Polish. The Rhubarb King won a Merit Award from the 2007 Midwest Independent Publishers Association. She’s served as readings coordinator for SASE at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts; she has read in several venues in the Twin Cities, Duluth, New York, Toronto, Tucson, South and North Dakota, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. The Other Mozart has been made into a two-part opera. Recent books are The Sky is Blue the Sky Is Great (Whistling Shade Press) and Calling (Loonfeather Press) which was awarded first runner-up in the Indie Book Awards, 2011.