Sharon Harrigan’s first book is the memoir Playing with Dynamite (Truman State University Press, 2017). Her second book is the novel Half (University of Wisconsin Press), which Publisher’s Weekly called “riveting and inventive, a cut above the average coming of age tale.” Her work has also appeared in such places as the New York Times (Modern Love), Pleiades, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and lives and teaches in Charlottesville. Learn more at her website.