Erin Sharkey

Erin Sharkey (she/they) is an educator, writer, arts and abolition organizer, and cultural worker based in Minneapolis. Sharkey edited the anthology, A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars (Milkweed Editions). She has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University. Erin teaches at Minneapolis College, the Transformation and Re-entry through Education and Community (TREC) program, and works with the ReEntry Lab. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Loft Mentor Series, VONA/Voices, Givens Foundation, Coffee House Press, Bell Museum of Natural History, Jerome Foundation, and Black Seed Fellowship from Black Visions and the Headwaters Foundation. Sharkey is a cooperative member of the Fields at Rootsprings Retreat, a land-based Cooperative stewarding space for the healing and development of BIPOC artists, activists, healers, and community centering LGBTQ folx in Central Minnesota. Erin is currently at work co-editing a forthcoming, yet-to-be-named Black queer nature anthology for Milkweed with Grace Anderson of the Lupine Collaborative.