Erin Sharkey

Erin Sharkey is the cofounder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts collective called Free Black Dirt and is the producer of Sweetness of Wild and Small Business Revolution. Sharkey has received fellowships and residencies from the Loft Mentor Series, VONA/Voices, the Givens Foundation, Coffee House Press, the Bell Museum of Natural History, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2021, Sharkey was awarded the Black Seed Fellowship from Black Visions and the Headwaters Foundation. She has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.