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Mary Sharratt is an American writer currently living in England. A member of the literary organization Commonword, she is active in the Manchester writing community, regularly taking part in public readings and leading writing workshops. Previously she lived for 12 years in Germany where she coordinated the Munich Writers Workshop and published the literary journal Another Country. Mary returns regularly to her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota where she teaches workshops at The Loft Literary Center. Her acclaimed first novel Summit Avenue received a Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly and was featured on The Booksense 76 List. Now in its third printing, Summit Avenue was one of her publisher's best-sellers. Mary's second novel The Real Minerva explores the theme of female outlaws in a 1920s Minnesota town. The book is published by Houghton Mifflin in the US and by Hodder Headline in Australia. She has recently completed her third book, The Vanishing Point, a literary novel of dark suspense set in the Colonial Chesapeake. The Vanishing Point will be published by Houghton Mifflin in Spring 2006. Mary has received a Pushcart Nomination for her short fiction, which is published in a variety of journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, including American Writing, Puerto del Sol, Blithe House Quarterly, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Edition (St. Martin's 2000), and Hula Hoops and Slinkies: New Women's Writing (R.I.S.E. UK 2002). Living in the Lancashire countryside near the famous Pendle Hill, Mary loves to hike and to study folklore, myth, and history. More
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