Sharon Harrigan is the author of the novel Half (2020) and the memoir Playing with Dynamite (2017), both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Sharon Harrigan has a B.A. in English from Barnard College, Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Her essays and stories have been published widely, in such places as the New York Times (Modern Love), Virginia Quarterly Review, and Real Simple. She teaches writing at WriterHouse in Charlottesville, where she lives with her family.