Sharony Green

In the late seventies, Sharony Green used her dad's Selectric typewriter to write her first short stories. She still has the originals. Rusted paper clips hold them together. She cringes if her eyes scan even one sentence on those browning pages. but having them do make her smile.

Her poetry and short prose appear in Cuttin the Rug Under the Moonlit Sky: Stories and Drawings About a Bunch of Women named Mae (Anchor/Doubleday, 1997). She also wrote  Aunt Better's Day Work (Bumblee Books, 2023), a children's book.

Her poetry also appears or will soon appear in Southern Cultures, Islandia, About Place Journal, Voices from a Black Miami Neighborhood: The Baa Haas, Liberty City, the Grove and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), the The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume X, Alabama (Texas Review, 2023) and Teaching Public History in Alabama Creatively: About (Public) Face (Routledge, 2024).

Her nonfiction books include The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston and Honduras (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) and Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar (Miller Freeman/Backbeat/Routledge, 1999).