Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

Sharon DeBartolo Carmack holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing and is an MA Candidate in History. She is a Certified Genealogist (Retired 2024) and the author of thirty books, including The Madame Restell Cases: The Stories and Abortions of Five Women in Nineteenth-Century New York; In Search of Maria B. Hayden: The American Medium Who Brought Spiritualism to the U.K.; Telling Her Story: A Guide to Researching an Writing about Women of the Past; Tell It Short: A Guide to Writing Your Family History in Brief; and Inheriting the Gordon Hips, a collection of humorous essays. She is also the author of hundreds of articles, essays, columns, and reviews that have appeared in nearly every major genealogical journal and publication, as well as essays in literary publications, such as Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Hippocampus Magazine, Portland Review, Steinbeck Review, and Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art. Sharon’s essays have also been finalists in contests for the Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction and in Creative Nonfiction’s True Crime contest. Sharon is part of the online adjunct faculty for Southern New Hampshire Univesity.