Sharon Leiter

SHARON LEITER has written and published poetry and fiction, as well as literary criticism and creative nonfiction. Her most recent book, Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work was released by Facts on File, New York, in November 2006. She is the author of a volume of poetry, The Lady and the Bailiff of Time (Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1974) and a literary study of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, Akhmatova’s Petersburg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983; European edition: Cambridge University Press, 1983). This work was republished in 2000 under the Authors Guild backinprint.com imprint.

Most recently, her fiction and poetry have appeared in Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, The Georgia Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Pembroke Magazine, and The New Delta Review, Streetlight, Tough Times Companion, Oasis, and many other literary reviews. Her nonfiction articles have appeared in Moment, The Albemarle Review, and Virginia.

She is an adjunct professor in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of Virginia, where she teaches courses on poetry. An active member of the local writing scene, she is poetry editor of Streetlight, Charlottesville’s community journal of literature and the arts, and a past president of the Charlottesville Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club.