Sharon White

BOILING LAKE

Sharon White’s book, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of two collections of poetry, Eve & Her Apple and Bone House. Her memoir, Field Notes, A Geography of Mourning, received the Julia Ward Howe Prize, Honorable Mention, from the Boston Authors Club. Boiling Lake was a finalist for the Iowa Prize in Fiction. Some of her other awards include the Italo Calvino prize in Fabulist Fiction, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, the Leeway Foundation Award for Achievement, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in many magazines and journals including ISLE, Ecozon@, Isotope, Appalachia, Kalliope and North American Review. She teaches writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Sharon White is the author of Boiling Lake (On Voyage).

About the book

“With mad singing in strange lands and familiar places, these tiny stories speak a language of dark lyricism. Unleashing the unconscious, White dares to venture through a tapestry of nightmare memories to illuminate strange moments of reality bordered by pure beauty. The book flies fast and free on the wings of words lit by the light on the moon.”

—Aimee Parkison, author, The Petals of Your Eyes