Sharon Wahl is a writer and documentary film producer.  Her collection of love stories inspired by classic philosophy texts, Everything Flirts, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2024.  Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Harper's, the Iowa Review, the Chicago Tribune, Harvard Review, Pleiades, and other periodicals.  She is currently writing Bitter Tales, a collection of interlocked stories and essays.   

Sharon studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan, math at MIT, and writing at Washington University in St. Louis and the Clarion Workshop.  She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, documentary filmmaker and writer Jonathan VanBallenberghe.  In 2006 they started Open Lens Productions, a video production company.  Follow this LINK for a look at their latest documentary, Almost an Island.