Whitney Scharer
Whitney Scharer holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington, and her short fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and other journals. She is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Award in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, a Somerville Arts Council Artists grant, and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Ragdale. For ten years, she was the Development and Communications Director at GrubStreet, and she now runs her own graphic design business. Her first novel, The Age of Light, is forthcoming from Little, Brown in early 2019.