Sharma Shields - Reading and Signing

Join us for a reading and booksigning by Sharma Shields, author of The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac, on Tuesday, May 5 at 7pm. Light refreshments will be provided, with beer and wine available for purchase. Sharma Shields received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). She is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster (Autumn House Press 2012), and a novel, The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac (Henry Holt 2015). Sharma's writing has appeared in Electric Lit, The New York Times, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and has garnered such awards as the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and now lives in Spokane with her husband and two young children. She is a newly appointed board member for the Friends of the Spokane County Library District.