Sharon Charde
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Sharon Charde

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Sharon Charde, a retired psychotherapist and a writing teacher since 1992, has won numerous poetry awards, the latest being 2018 finalist in the Blue Light Press chapbook contest for Unhinged, published in 2019, Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018 by The Halcyone, and a semi-finalist in the 2019 Grid contest for full-length collections for The Glass Is Already Broken. She is published over eighty times in journals and anthologies of poetry and prose, including Calyx, Mudfish, The Paterson Review, Ping Pong, Rattle, Poet Lore, Upstreet and The Comstock Review, and has had seven Pushcart nominations. She has also edited and published I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent, containing the work of the adjudicated teenaged females she has volunteered with since 1999 at a residential treatment center in Litchfield Ct. She has three first prize-winning chapbooks, Bad Girl At The Altar Rail, Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto and Incendiary as well as a full-length collection, Branch In His Hand, published by Backwaters Press in November 2008, which was adapted as a radio play by the BBC, broadcast in 2012. After Blue, for which she won honorable mention in Finishing Line Press’s 2013 chapbook contest, was published in September 2014. She has been awarded fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center For The Creative Arts, The MacDowell Colony, The UCross Foundation and The Corporation Of Yaddo. Her memoir, also titled, I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent, How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Women, will be published by Mango Publishing, in June 2020.
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