Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer and essayist. Her poetry collections are Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose), Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo), Half Angel/Half Lunch (Hard Press) and Vertigo Seeks Affinities (Belladonna). Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013). Recent work appears in Fence, New American Writing, American Poetry Review, On the Seawall, Posit, Maintenant, The Arts Fuse, Heavy Feather Review and Australia’s Westerly, among others. Her poetry collection in Romanian translation, Chiar așa (“Just This”) was published by Charmides in 2021. She is also the author of three fiction collections: The Empty Quarter and In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose) and Ma Vie à Yonago (Hachette, in French translation). Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine/The Cut, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Commonweal, Teachers and Writers Magazine, The Girlfriend, Next Avenue and the Brooklyn Rail among others. Her awards include a Jerome Foundation mentoring award and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. She teaches creative writing at New York University and The New School.
