Sharon Wahl's collection of love stories inspired by classic philosophy texts, Everything Flirts, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.  Her writing has appeared in Harper's, The Iowa Review, the Chicago Tribune, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Wigleaf, and other periodicals, and has received eight Pushcart Prize nominations.  She is also grateful for support received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Villa Montalvo, Dorland Mountain Colony, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Corporation of Yaddo. She is currently writing Character Flaws, a collection of fiction, essays, memoir, and lyric essays about her particular collection of character flaws, and how they have doomed her from the start. 

Sharon studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan, math at MIT, and writing at Washington University in St. Louis and the Clarion Workshop.  She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, documentary filmmaker and writer Jonathan VanBallenberghe.  In 2005 they started Open Lens Productions, a video production company.  Follow this LINK for a look at their latest documentary, Almost an Island.