About Me SHARON DARROW has taught in Vermont College’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults and at Columbia College Chicago. Her works include: OLD THUNDER AND MISS RANEY (illus. Kathryn Brown, DK-Ink, 2000), honored by the Western Writers of America and featured at the Kentucky Derby Museum; THROUGH THE TEMPESTS DARK AND WILD: A STORY OF MARY SHELLEY, CREATOR OF FRANKENSTEIN (illus. Angela Barrett, Candlewick, 2003); THE PAINTERS OF LEXIEVILLE (Candlewick, 2003), winner of the 2004 Oklahoma Book Award for YA Fiction and named a KLIATT Editors’ Choice; TRASH (Candlewick, 2006), a Junior Library Guild selection; nominated for the ALA's YA Reluctant Readers List; finalist in the Oklahoma Book Awards; short fiction, essays, and poetry in Other Voices, Rhino, Folio, Columbia Poetry Review, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Great River Review, AWP Chronicle, HOME TO ME: POEMS ACROSS AMERICA (Orchard, 2002), and IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE-WEST: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CREATIVE NON-FICTION (Fall 2003), Indiana University. *photo by Lynn Sloan |
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