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Coming from a Brazilian-German background, Sharon’s writing career began at five
when she embarked upon her autobiography. Surviving a sticky teenage hell, she became Young Poet
of the Year, consequently publishing her first collection, Rain in the Upper Floor Café (WCA, 1989).
After wandering around Europe, indulging in various colourful occupations – such as waitress, art
dealer and model - Sharon studied English at the University of London where she graduated with the
top First. After heading to Jesus College, Cambridge for her master’s degree in Medieval and Renaissance
Literature, she returned to London to research for her Ph.D. with Prof. Lisa Jardine. Named as Writers
Inc. Writer of the Year (2003), shortlisted for the Raymond Carver Award (2005) and the New Writer
Award (2006), she was recently awarded the Speculative Literature Foundation’s travel research grant
for 2006, her fiction having been published in the UK, US and Mexico. She has recently finished
her first novel, Sharonville, and is currently close to concluding her second, The Red Umbrella.
Between writing and teaching, Sharon meditates, travels, watches sci-fi and sings
when nobody’s listening. |
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