Sharyn Jeanne Skeeter

Poet, Fiction Writer

Seattle, WA
Washington US
Email: 
whats.next.short.fiction@gmail.com
Website: 
sharynskeeter.com

Author's Bio

Sharyn Skeeter is a writer, poet, novelist, and educator. She was fiction/poetry/book review editor at Essence and editor-in-chief at Black Elegance magazine.

Her novel Dancing with Langston received the Foreword Reviews INDIES Gold Award in Multicultural Adult Fiction (2019). She's editor of the anthology What's Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change. What's Next? received the Silver Award in Fiction Anthologies from the CIPA EVVY Awards (2024). It was a Finalist in two categories in the Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards (2023)--Multicultural Adult Fiction and Anthologies. 

Her interviews with authors in What's Next? are on YouTube: "What's Next? Conversations with Authors."

She's taught at Emerson College, the University of Bridgeport, Fairfield University, and Gateway and Three Rivers community colleges. She has also participated in panel discussions and readings at universities in India and Singapore.

Sharyn Skeeter has written and published magazine articles, poetry, and fiction in journals and anthologies. She lives in Seattle, where she's a board member and secretary at Earth Creative, a former trustee at ACT Theatre, and a former board member of Hugo House.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
What's Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change (Green Writers Press, 2023)
,
Dancing with Langston (Green Writers Press, 2019)
Journals:
Chicago Quarterly Review
,
Fiction
,
Hawaii Pacific Review
,
Hypertext Magazine
,
Monkeybicycle

Poetry

Anthologies:
Our Black Sons Matter (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
,
The Second Word Thursdays (Bright Hill Press, 1999)
,
In Search of Color Everywhere (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994)
,
Keeping the Faith: Writings by Contemporary Black American Women (Fawcett Books, 1974)
Journals:
Café Review
,
Callaloo
,
Connecticut River Review
,
Essence
,
Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review
,
Pearl Magazine
,
Poet Lore
,
Re-Markings
Prizes won: 

What's Next?: Short Fiction in Time of Change won the 2024 CIPA EVVY Silver Award in Fiction Anthologies.

What's Next?: Short Fiction in Time of Change is a 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in two categories--Multicultural Adult Fiction and Anthologies. Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY Silver Award, 2024--Anthologies.

Dancing with Langston is the 2019 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Multicultural Adult Fiction.

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Yonkers, NY
New York
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
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Last update: Jan 05, 2025