About

SHARMA SHIELDS is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster (Autumn House Press 2012), and three novels, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac (Henry Holt 2015) The Cassandra (Henry Holt 2019), and Duckling (forthcoming from Henry Holt in 2027). Sharma’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Lit, Catapult, Slice, Slate, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and have garnered such prizes as the 2020 PNBA Award, a 2020 Artist Trust Fellowship, the 2016 Washington State Book Award in Fiction, the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She has managed a small press, Scablands Books, and is a contributing editor for Moss. Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and is currently the Writing Education Specialist for Spokane Public Library.