I’m a fiction writer, freelance editor, journalist, essayist, and mother. I grew up in Detroit, went to college and worked for years as a managing editor in New York City, moved to Virginia, then Paris, then back to Virginia. Click here for links to all my publications.
Click here to read my blog about reading and writing, motherhood, Paris, and life. Or follow this link to send me an e-mail. I can be reached at harrigan.sharon@gmail.com.
Below is a sample of my publications. Most are available online. Click on the names of the journals and magazines for full-text links. Those that are available only in print have links to the magazine’s web site.
ESSAYS
Detroit in Narrative, August 2012
Getting Away with It in The Nervous Breakdown, January 6, 2012
To Paris with Love and Red Cowboy Boots in The Nervous Breakdown, November 8, 2011
Early in The Nervous Breakdown, September 28, 2011
Another September 11 Ritual: Part Fact, Part Fiction in The Nervous Breakdown, September 11, 201
Revenge of the Prey: How a Deer Killed My Dad in The Rumpus, June 16, 2011
The Dragon in Hip Mama, June 12, 2011
Pockets in Life with Objects
FICTION
Eighty-Two Percent True in Prime Number, January 2013 (forthcoming)
Half in Pleiades, June 2013 (forthcoming)
Cyber Anniversary in Pearl, Summer 2011 (available in print only)
Black Orchid in Apercus Quarterly, Summer 2011
World Series in Slice, March 2009 (available in print only)
BOOK REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Interview with Cliff Garstang in The Nervous Breakdown, December 2012
Interview with Deborah Reed in Silk Road Review, January 2013
Interview with Kristen-Paige Madonia in The Nervous Breakdown, July 2012
Review of Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin in The Nervous Breakdown, July 2012
Don’t Put Grandma in the Corner: Elderly Characters and Their Transitions in Recent Fiction in Fiction Writers Review, July 2012.
Review of The World of a Few Minutes Ago by Jack Driscoll in The Nervous Breakdown, March 2012
Review of New Stories from the Midwest edited by Jason Lee Brown and Jay Prefontaine in Mid American Review, Spring 2012 (available in print only)
Review of Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta in The Nervous Breakdown, October 2011
Review of Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild in The Nervous Breakdown, February 21, 2012
Review of Peter Cameron’s Coral Glynn in The Nervous Breakdown, February 15, 2012
Review of Justin Torres’s We the Animals in The Nervous Breakdown, October 26, 2011
Review of Stewart O’Nan’s Emily Alone in Rain Taxi, Fall 2011
Review of George Saunders’s Civilwarland in Bad Decline in Fiction Writers Review, October 2011
Review of Bonnie Jo Campbell’s Once Upon a River in The Nervous Breakdown, August 24, 2011
Review of Alexander McLeod’s Light Lifting in The Nervous Breakdown, August 29, 2011
Review of Deborah Reed’s Carry Yourself Back to Me in The Nervous Breakdown, September 21, 2011
Review of Nick Flynn’s The Ticking Is the Bomb in The Rumpus, July 8, 2011
Review of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad in Rain Taxi, Summer 2011
Interview with Emma Rathbone in Prime Number, April 2011
Review of Benjamin Percy’s The Wilding in Prime Number, May 2011
Review of Sudden Flash Fiction anthology in Prime Number, May 2011
Review of Deborah Eisenberg’s Transactions in a Foreign Currency in The Rumpus, April 13, 2011