Sharon

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Publishing
Occupation Writer and Editorial Associate
Location Akron, Ohio, United States
Introduction I am a freelance writer, a former editorial associate with AkronLife magazine and a recent graduate from the NEOMFA, the NorthEast Ohio Master of Fine Arts, at The University of Akron, Ohio. I volunteer with various organizations around town and am always searching for the next story to tell.
Interests Writing, reading, birds of prey, running, local businesses, yoga, movies, immigration, social justice, sewing, thrift shopping
Favorite Movies The Coen Brothers, Woody Allen, Kubrick, Hitchcock. Also rom-coms.
Favorite Music Lizzo, Lake Street Dive, Marian Hill, Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Etta James, James Brown, The Cure, anything funky
Favorite Books The Assistant (Malamud), The Stranger (Camus), Zeitoun (Eggers), Wild (Strayed), The Memoir Project (Roach-Smith), In Cold Blood (Capote), The Last American Man (Gilbert), Black Like Me (Griffin), Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Didion), The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion), Planet of the Apes and Philosophy (Huss).

You're wearing a sweater that stretches down to your feet. What color belt do you put on?

Like the horizon as you move toward it, the end of a conversation can slip away down the curve of every new thought that bubbles up. If our conversation is mutually generative, the aliens and I will never stop communicating. Rather, we will reach deeper and deeper understanding throughout time.