Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster, and a novel, The Sasquatch Hunters Almanac. Sharmas writing has appeared in Electric Lit, The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and has garnered such awards as the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and now lives in Spokane with her husband and two young children. She is a newly appointed board member for the Friends of the Spokane County Library District.
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Sharma Shields recommends
Fire Season (2022)
Leyna Krow
"Leyna Krow's debut novel, Fire Season, is Karen Russell meets Patrick deWitt meets Katherine Dunn--an edgy, twisty tale of fraudsters, underdogs, and an all-seeing woman who longs to rise above man's greed. Exploding with history, theft, humor, and magic, this incendiary novel is a thrilling addition to the Northwest literary canon."
Copy Boy (2020)
(Jane Benjamin, book 1)
Shelley Blanton-Stroud
"This is Raymond Chandler for feminists."
The Unsuitable (2020)
Molly Pohlig
"The Unsuitable is a gruesome, stabby, wincing book about the ways in which women are influenced, hindered, hurt, and taught to hurt themselves. There is a rebellious glee in Iseult's response to the powers that be, and great humor amidst the glittering darkness. This is a comedy of manners marvelously turned upside down."
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