SHERYL MONKS ~ writer • editor • teacher

Sheryl Monks is a writer and the former co-owner/editor of Press 53, an Indie book publisher in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte and a BA in English from Salem College. She has worked with both well-known and emerging authors and developed a strong line of literary fiction at Press 53, establishing it as one of the many outstanding small presses in the US. She teaches creative writing at Salem College, where she also serves on the board for the Center for Women Writers.

Sheryl's stories have earned recognition and awards, including a Northwest NC Regional Artist's Project Grant, the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award, and finalist recognition in literary contests sponsored by Backwards City Review and VERB: An Audioquarterly. Work has appeared or is forthcoming in RE:AL — Regarding Arts and Letters, Backwards City Review, Southern Gothic online, Surreal South, Fried Chicken and Coffee, and other publications.

She is currently writing a novel and completing a collection of stories.

To purchase a copy of her book of folktales, Ghostly Lighthouses from Maine to Florida, visit her publisher John F. Blair at www.blairpub.com.