Featured Mentor: Sharon Dilworth

We are excited to announce our featured mentor of the week: Sharon Dilworth! Sharon Dilworth is the author of three collections of short stories: The Long White; Women Drinking Benedictine; and Two Sides, Two Rivers, as well as two novels: Year of the Ginkgo and My Riviera. Sharon has won a National Endowment for Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. Her new novel, To Be Marquette takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She holds an undergraduate degree from Northern Michigan University, a Master’s Degree from Wayne State University, and an MFA from the University of Michigan. She is a professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

“I'm pleased to be working in the mentorship program for several reasons,” Sharon shared when I asked her about the program, “Most importantly I think because I had a great mentor when I started writing. Charlie Baxtger shared so much of his time and concern for fiction with me.  I have never forgotten his generosity.  “

Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh is the last book that Sharon read and loved. She said “it's a beautiful and troubling book––the writing is wonderful.”

Click here to sign up for a mentorship from Sharon!

And check out both of Sharon’s phenomenal short story collections, Women Drinking Benedictine and The Long White.