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Sharon Charde, a retired family therapist, is a writing teacher who has been published in over twenty journals and anthologies and has won a number of awards for her poems, including six Pushcart nominations. She has edited and published an anthology of poetry, I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent, the product of her weekly writing workshops at Touchstone, a residential treatment facility where she has volunteered since 1999. She won first prize in the Flume Press 2005 chapbook competition, and Bad Girl At The Altar Rail was published in September 2005. Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto, a chapbook of poems about her son’s death and its aftermath, won first prize from the Dallas Poets Community in 2006, and Backwaters Press will publish her full-length collection, Branch In His Hand, in 2008. She won the first Litchfield County Inge Morath Award in 2005, given for the significant social impact she has had in the arts, and the “Making A Difference For Women Award” from Soroptimist International of Greater Waterbury, CT in 2007. She has led women’s writing retreats in Lakeville, CT and Block Island, Rhode Island since 1990, and has lived in Lakeville with her husband John since 1970.
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