Short Bio
Sam Sharp is a writer from northcentral Ohio. Working in the environmental field and art, 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.
Slightly Longer Bio
Sam Sharp grew up in northcentral Ohio, a place that the writer David Giffels has called, “an uncommon everyplace.” His writing and life reflect that home landscape – its low fields, pastures, patches of woods, lulling rivers, glaciated hills – in their preference for the everyday, the “flyover,” a humble humorous surprising landscape.
Along with writing, he has worked in a variety of fields, from cutting trees with his brothers and father to trail building, leading expeditions with Outward Bound, teaching college writing at UWYO, to teaching environmental field courses with the Wild Rockies Field Institute. He holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming with a concurrent degree in Environment & Natural Resources, where he worked on a collection of essays and a project centered on amplifying Indigenous-led bison restoration with the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative.
He writes about what interests him, from stray cats to water conservation in the West. His essays have been awarded Best of the Net and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can find some of them in Terrain.org, Midwest Weird, Midwest Review, and elsewhere.
Drawn to the arid land and cultural complexities of the Rocky Mountains, he lives in Missoula, Montana.
Awards & Honors
“In our Hands” nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Midwest Review, 2025.
“Drug Test” nominated “Best of the Net” Midwest Weird. 2025.
Shortlisted for the Letter Review Prize in nonfiction, 2025.
Recipient of a residency from the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. 2025
Freeflow Institute Scholar on the course, “Writing the Nonhuman” with Ana Maria Spagna. 2025.
Recipient of the Haub School of Environment & Grant for Research & Creativity. 2023
Winner of the Thomas and Mini Freeman Writing Scholarship. Kent State University. 2021.
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