Shakira Croce - 1 post

is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. A Georgia native, after studying writing at Sarah Lawrence College and completing a Masters at Pace University, she currently works as Communications Manager for a not-for-profit health care organization, Amida Care. Croce’s poetry translations have appeared in Babel magazine, and recently her poetry has been featured in the New Ohio Review, Pilgrimage Magazine, HIV Here & Now, Transactions, Ducts.org, and pioneertown. She was a featured reader in the Boundless Tales Reading Series, and she was a finalist in the Linda Flowers Literary Award competition. Her poetry was featured in the Nasty Women Art Exhibition in Queens, New York.

Shannon Perry - 1 post

, a generic Oregonian, has had the privilege of living in the Hood River Valley for 32 years. It was a nurturing home for raising three daughters. The beauty of the valley inspires her every day, and provides many opportunities to hike and explore. Shannon has written for as long as she can remember and taught in the elementary grades for 28 years and, through that, nourished young writers. Now retired, she has time to explore her own writing more thoroughly. Her work has appeared in The Yes Book, The Gorge Literary Journal, and Writing Up the Gorge at the Columbia Art Gallery.

Shari Lane - 4 posts

s novel, Two Over Easy All Day Long (Golden Antelope Press), came out in May, 2024. Her stories have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Evening Street Review, Antithesis (forthcoming), Cape Magazine, and others literary journals. Jaysus, MooMoo, and the Immortal Woos, another novel, was longlisted in the 2024 international Stockholm Writers Festival First Five Pages contest. Shari has been, at various times: a middle school Latin teacher; a toddler wrangler; a lawyer; and an advocate for the houseless, immigrants, and the earth. Also tangentially relevant: her muses are dogs, chocolate, and the Salish Sea. In March 2022, Shari launched a serialized novel The Dogs of Looser Island (www.alaughingdog.com). She also has an occasionally-active blog, Brillig (www.dragonpepper38.com), with musings on life, love, despair, and hope. More information can be found at www.sharilane.com, on Shari’s Facebook pages, and Shari's Instagram page (@ReadWriteBreath38).

SHARK REEF - A Literary Magazine

Sharon Goldberg - 3 posts

is a Seattle writer whose work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, The Louisville Review, Cold Mountain Review, River Teeth, Green Mountains Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Southern Indiana Review, Shark Reef, Best Small Fictions, and elsewhere. Sharon won second place in the On the Premises 2012 Humor Contest and Fiction Attic Press's 2013 Flash in the Attic Contest. She is an avid but cautious skier and enthusiastic world traveler.

Sharon Leach - 1 post

was born in Kingston, Jamaica. Her fiction has appeared in such publications as Kunapipi, Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Iron Balloons: Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop; and Blue Latitudes: An Anthology of Caribbean Women Fiction Writers, the Jamaica Journal, Caribbean Writing Today, Calabash: A Journal of Arts and Letters and AfroBeat journal. Her first book, What You Can’t Tell Him: Stories, a collection of short fiction, was published in 2006. A second collection, Love It When You Come, Hate It When You Go, was published in 2014.

Sharon Wootton - 1 post

, a full-time independent writer/photographer, lives on Shaw Island. From her loft office, she writes an outdoors column, a nature column, a music column and travel stories for two daily newspapers and a Northwest magazine. Her stories have appeared in Washington Wildlands, Garden Showcase, Odyssey, Cross-Country Skier, U.S. News and World Reports, Soundings, Motorcyclist Magazine and Commercial Car Journal as well as the National Insider and Midnight. She’s also co-authored, with Maggie Savage, two books: “Washington Off the Beaten Path” (2009, Insiders’ Guide/Globe Pequot) and “You Know You’re in Washington When … 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo and Eats of the Evergreen State” (2007, Globe Pequot). Sharon and Maggie also host individual and group retreats (moc.dnalsikcornull@drowdnagnos).

Shaun Turner - 1 post

is the author of "The Lawless River" (Red Bird Chapbooks 2016). His writing can be found at Southwest Review, Tin House's Flash Fridays, Bear Review, and Permafrost Magazine, among others. He recieved his MFA from West Virginia University. His website is www.shaunturnerwrites.com.

Shay Belisle - 1 post

is originally from Maui, Hawaii, where she grew up eating mangoes and bathing in an outdoor bathtub in a ginger thicket. She currently lives in Berkeley, CA, where she works as a personal chef and is a degree candidate for her MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Shay is also the Creative Nonfiction Contributing Editor for the forthcoming issue 14 of 580 Split.

Sheila Bender - 1 post

is the founder of http://writingitreal.com, an online resource dedicated to those who write from personal experience. Her books include the memoir, A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, the poetry collection, Behind Us the Way Grows Wider, and the instructional book Writing Personal Essays: Shaping and Sharing Life Experience. She teaches online for several writing sites as well as in-person at writers' workshops and conferences around the US.