Sharon Dilworth is the author of three collections of short stories—The Long White, Women Drinking Benedictine, and Two Sides, Three Rivers—as well as two previous novels My Riviera, and Year of the Ginkgo. Her latest novel, To Be Marquette, takes place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

Sharon has won a National Endowment for Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize for Fiction, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant.

She holds an undergraduate degree from Norther 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.

Follow Sharon on Instagram @sharon.dilworth or email her at sd20@andrew.cmu.edu.