Sharon Carter was born in London, obtained her medical degree from Cambridge University, and immigrated to the United States in 1979. Her poems have been published in a number of presses, including Raven Chronicles, Exhibition, Mediphors, Synapse, Heliotrope, Floating Bridge Anthology (1999), Spindrift, Metro’s Art on the Buses, The Permanente Journal, The Best of the Melic Review (2001), and several others. Carter’s work is also featured online on Switched-on Gutenberg, Melic Review, and Psychiatric Times. In 2000 she served as an editor for Raven Chronicles, South Sound edition. Her poems have been accepted by Möbius and Terra Nova. In 2001 she was awarded a residency at Hedgebrook. Carter is currently co-editor of Literary Salt, an online journal featuring poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, and photography.

2003 Writers Program