Sharon English’s books include the newly released novel Night in the World (May 2022) and two collections of short stories, Uncomfortably Numb and Zero Gravity. Zero Gravity was long-listed for the Giller Prize, short-listed for the ReLit Award, and was a Globe & Mail Best 100 title of the year. A translation into Serbian was published in 2020. Night in the World has been described as “a splendid and searing novel, pressed up against the tremours of our times.”

Sharon’s stories, essays and interviews have also appeared in numerous journals, including Best Canadian Stories, Canadian Notes & Queries (CNQ), Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, and Dark Mountain in Britain. She was guest co-editor of the Winter 2020 special issue of CNQ, “Writing in an Age of Unravelling,” which featured writing that addresses ecological crisis. A research team member of the Persephone Project, Sharon has been dedicated to re-imagining our relationship to home in the context of ecological and social crisis, and to pursuing writing and storytelling that aligns with the natural world.

Originally from London, ON, Sharon began teaching at the University of Toronto in 2000. She is now Assistant Professor in the Writing & Rhetoric program at Innis College, where she has taught courses in creative writing since 2008. From 2016-­2021 she served as the program’s director. During this time she also directed the Innis One program, where she taught writing creative nonfiction, and the Innis College Writing Centre.

Sharon now lives in rural Nova Scotia on the Shubenacadie River.