Sharon Hatfield

Sharon Hatfield grew up loving Nancy Drew mysteries and listening to her grandmother read Grimm’s Fairy Tales aloud. Years later, she’s still interested in mysteries of various kinds, which has influenced her choice of nonfiction book topics. Her newest book, Enchanted Ground: The Spirit Room of Jonathan Koons, was published by Swallow Press in November 2018.

A native of Ewing, Virginia, she began writing poems and stories at an early age. As a teenager, Sharon made her first airplane trip to compete in the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. After graduating from Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, she became a newspaper reporter in Norton, Virginia. Sharon later earned a master’s degree in journalism from Ohio University and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in Maryland. She also has worked as an editor, English professor and manuscript consultant. Sharon has twice received an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, most recently in 2018 for her work on Enchanted Ground. Her previous book, Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell, won the Weatherford and Chaffin awards for nonfiction.