sherylmonks
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| Gender | Female |
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| 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 |