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.