Erin Sharkey
Writer, producer, and Designer in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Erin Sharkey is a writer and cultural producer based in Minneapolis. She is the co-founder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts production company called Free Black Dirt. Erin was a Bell Museum Artist-in-Residence, Loft Mentor Series mentee, VONA fellow, Jerome Travel and Study grantee, and Givens Foundation fellow. Her work as appeared in Brooklyn Quarterly, Paper Darts and Walker Sightlines and Primer Magazines and is editing A Darker Wilderness, a forthcoming anthology of Black nature writing for Milkweed Editions. In 2019, She was awarded the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant and MRAC's Next Step Fund, and this year she is teaching with Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.