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Sharon Short

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Sharon Short is the author of the coming-of-age novel My One Square Inch of Alaska in which a pair of siblings escape the strictures of the 1950s industrial Ohio town on the adventure of a lifetime, and of two mystery series

As Jess Montgomery, she writes a historical mystery series set in 1920s Appalachia. The first title, "THE WIDOWS," will be published by Minotaur Books in January 2019.

Sharon has twice received Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grants for her fiction. Opening chapters of Alaska earned the 2012 OAC grant as well as a Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District Literary Artist Fellowship .

Based on chapters of THE WIDOWS, she earned her 2016 OAC grant and was named the 2014 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.

Additionally, Sharon's book Sanity Check: A Collection of Columns includes 100 reader-favorites of her weekly humor and lifestyle column that ran in the Dayton Daily News for more than a decade. Sharon has also published two mystery series as well as short stories and essays.

Sharon is the Literary Life columnist for the Dayton Daily News and is the Executive Director of the renowned Antioch Writers' Workshop at University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.

Sharon holds a B.A. in English from Wright State University and in 2013 was named the university's Outstanding Alumna for the College of Liberal Arts Department of English based on her achievements as a writer, columnist and director of a literary arts organization. She also holds an M.A. in English from Bowling Green State University. She makes her home in her native state of Ohio.

Sharon also has a Facebook author page:
www.facebook.com/SharonShortAuthor

and Instagram page:
www.instagram.com/sharongshort

Learn more about her work as Jess on her Jess Montgomery Goodreads page or on her website: www.jessmontgomeryauthor.com

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Sharon Short

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Books from Sharon Short

Downriver

Sanity Check

Mein kleines Stück Alaska: Roman

Mein kleines Stück Alaska

Death by Deep Dish Pie (Toadfern / Stain-Busting Mystery, Book 2)

Death in the Cards (Toadfern / Stain-Busting Mystery, Book 3)

My One Square Inch of Alaska

The Death We Share (Patricia Delaney Egumshoe Mystery, #3)

Past Pretense (Patricia Delaney Egumshoe Mystery, #2)

Hung Out to Die (Toadfern / Stain-Busting Mystery, Book 4)

Trouble Island