Sheryl Monks is the author of Monsters in Appalachia: Stories. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of literary journals, including The Butter, The Greensboro Review, storySouth, Regarding Arts and Letters, Night Train, and others, and in the anthologies Surreal South and Eyes Burning at the Edge of the Woods: Contemporary West Virginia Fiction and Poetry, among others. She is a past winner of the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, recipient of a North Carolina Regional Artist's Project Grant, and a previous finalist for the Hudson Prize, sponsored by Black Lawrence Press. She grew up in southern West Virginia and the foothills of North Carolina. Sheryl works for a peer-reviewed medical journal and edits the online literary magazine Change Seven. For more information, visit her online at www.sherylmonks.com.
This biography was last updated on 11/01/2016.
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