Sharon Coleman is a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for learning languages and their entangled word roots. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Ambush Review, Clade Song, Rivet, Tule Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and her chapbook Half Circle; published in 2013. She writes for Poetry Flash and teaches at Berkeley City College. Sharon co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Her blink fictions were nominated twice for a Pushcart and once for a Micro Award.