About the Author

Sharon Pywell grew up on the edge of Upstate New York’s snow belt.  She has published in a number of literary quarterlies and held residencies at the MacDowell Colony.  Her previous novels include WHAT HAPPENED TO HENRY and EVERYTHING AFTER.  Professionally, she has run dog kennels and dance companies, though she now teaches and writes in Boston.

On the Writing Process

“I don’t think I’ve ever been at a book reading where writers weren’t asked to describe their ‘process’. I think most of these questioners are aspiring writers who nurse the hope that a rubric exists, somewhere, that guides the hundreds or thousands of hours spent sitting in a chair and tapping at a keyboard and brings them, at last, to a completed (and brilliant) novel. No such strategy really exists. The idea that it does is the unicorn of the business...” [Read more]