Bio

Erin Sharkey (she/they)is an educator, writer, arts and abolition organizer, and cultural worker based in Minneapolis. Sharkey edited the anthology, A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars (Milkweed Editions). She has an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University. Erin teaches at Minneapolis College, the Transformation and Re-entry through Education and Community (TREC) program, and works with the ReEntry Lab. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Loft Mentor Series, VONA/Voices, Givens Foundation, Coffee House Press, Bell Museum of Natural History, Jerome Foundation, and Black Seed Fellowship from Black Visions and the Headwaters Foundation. 

Erin is currently at work co-editing a forthcoming, yet-to-be-named Black queer nature anthology for Milkweed with Grace Anderson of the Lupine Collaborative.

Erin is a steward cooperative member of the Fields at Rootsprings Retreat. Rootsprings is a land-based Cooperative stewarding space for healing and development of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) artists, activists, healers, and community centering Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer (LGBTQ) folx in Central Minnesota.