Sharon is a writer and editor, born and raised in New York City. She currently lives in Brooklyn after spending brief stints in New England and the original England. She is the recipient of several prizes, notably the winner of the 6th Grade Reading Contest at P.S. 99, and Best Feature Writer of her award-winning high school newspaper, The Southerner. Currently she is the Features Editor at Time Out New York. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New Yorker‘s Book Bench, Newsweek-The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone.
Sharon’s first real assignment was a music piece on New Found Glory: She interviewed the band at their label’s corporate offices while they were stoned, and was left with nothing but quotes about hair dye, eating pizza in hot rooms and Michelle Branch. The story remains her best work to date.
Sharon’s heroes include Jane Austen, Carson McCullers, Hildy Johnson, Janet Malcolm, Lillian Ross and the renegade crew of the spaceship Serenity. If you are an agent or an editor at a publishing house, Sharon would like to buy you strong drinks, cheap gifts that look expensive and discuss the young adult novel she is currently writing about a girl on the fringes with unrequited rock star dreams.
Sharon can type over 100 words per minute. She would very much like to hear from you.