Sam Sharp grew up in northcentral Ohio. A writer and environmental educator, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming with a concurrent degree in Environment & Natural Resources. His essays have been awarded Best of the Net and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can read them in Terrain.org, Midwest Weird, Midwest Review, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana, where he teaches for the Wild Rockies Field Institute.

Sam Sharp grew up in northcentral Ohio, where the Midwest, east coast, and Appalachian south collide – a place that the writer David Giffels has called, “an uncommon everyplace.” His writing and life reflect the textures of that home landscape – its low fields, pastures, patches of woods, burned rivers, glaciated hills. He began writing as a way to make sense of a formative relationship with his dog, growing up, and has been afflicted with the impulse ever since.

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