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Erin Sharkey

Erin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis. She is the editor of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars. Sharkey is a founding coop member of the Fields at Rootsprings, a retreat and respite space in central Minnesota, and co-founder, with Junauda Petrus, of an experimental arts collective called Free Black Dirt. Sharkey has received fellowships and residencies from the Loft Mentor Series, Penumbra Theatre, Bell Museum of Natural History, Black Visions, Headwaters Foundation, Anderson Center, and Jerome Foundation. She has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University.

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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, editor (Milkweed Editions, 2023)

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