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

Sam Sharp grew up in the low hills of northcentral Ohio – what the writer David Giffels called, “an uncommon everyplace.” This home landscape has shaped both his being and belief in the value of “flyover” places, animals, and bodily experiences. He writes about what interests him and hesitates to describe his writing in any more depth, either in genre or content, for fear of boxing it in. His nonfiction has been awarded Best of the Net and nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and appears in Terrain.org, Midwest Weird, Midwest Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming with a concurrent degree in Environment & Natural Resources.

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