{{Short description|Fiction writer and professor (born 1945)}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sharon Solwitz | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1945<ref>{{cite book |last1=Solwitz |first1=Sharon |title=Blood and Milk |date=1997 |publisher=Sarabande Books |isbn=1-889330-01-09 |page=Copyright page |edition=1}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_place = | occupation = Short story writer, Novelist, College Professor | genre = | movement = | nationality = American | influences = | influenced = }} '''Sharon Solwitz''' is a fiction writer and professor based in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of the short story collection ''Blood and Milk'' and the novels ''Bloody Mary'' and ''Once, in Lourdes''. Tom Perotta and Heidi Pitlor selected her story "Alive" for inclusion in ''The Best American Short Stories 2012'', and her story "Gifted" was chosen for the 2016 collection.<ref>Pitlor, Heidi and Díaz, Junot (editors), ''The Best American Short Stories 2016'' Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2015.</ref> She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1991,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?p=Sharon_Solwitz|title = Directory // Purdue College of Liberal Arts}}</ref> and teaches creative writing at Purdue University.

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== External links == * [http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?p=Sharon_Solwitz The author's faculty page]

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