Sharon Wahl's collection of love stories inspired by classic philosophy texts, Everything Flirts, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was nominated to the longlist 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 currently writing Character Flaws, a collection of fiction, essays, memoir, and lyric essays about what has gone wrong with her life, what has gone right, what was her fault, what might not have been her fault, and how her particular collection of character flaws has 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.