Sharon Solwitz

Sharon Solwitz' novel in stories Abra Cadabra won the 2018 Christopher Dohenny Award from the Center for Fiction. Her novel, Once, in Lourdes (Spiegel and Grau 2017) won first prize in adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors. She is the author of a novel, Bloody Mary, and a collection of stories, Blood and Milk, which won the Carl Sandburg Prize from Friends of the Chicago Public Library, and the prize for adult fiction from the Society of Midland Authors and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in magazines including New England Review, Tikkun, The Missouri Review, The Mississippi Review, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Mademoiselle, Tri-Quarterly, The Chicago Tribune Magazine. Reprinted, her work can be found in creative writing textbooks Four Genres, Teaching Creative Nonfiction, and Turning Your Life into Fiction, as well as in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Among the national prizes her stories have recently received are Nimrod Magazine's Katherine Anne Porter Prize and first prize in American Literary Fiction.