sherylmonks

My blogs

Gender	Female
Occupation	writer, editor, teacher
Introduction	My work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Greensboro Review, Midwestern Gothic, the Writer's Chronicle, RE:AL, Backwards City Review, Southern Gothic online, Surreal South, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Night Train, storySouth, and elsewhere. I am currently writing a novel set in McDowell County, WV. Visit me at www.sherylmonks.com.
Interests	Literary fiction, short fiction, reading, writing, editing, coaching other writers, leading workshops, teaching, Southern culture, Appalachian culture
Favorite Books	The Land Breakers by John Ehle, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Gap Creek by Robert Morgan, Saving Grace by Lee Smith, The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham, Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund, Town Smokes by Pinckney Benedict, Given Ground by Ann Pancake, Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina, The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow, Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips