Hungry to fill some pages? Join Sharon Mesmer, poet, fiction writer and essayist (and close personal friend of Diana Goetsch), for a lunch hour of writing. You supply the community, Sharon supplies the inspiration, lunch is optional. This write-in will be hosted in The Virtual Writing Room.

FREE for Members (use the link to the The Virtual Writing Room) or non-members, register below ($15).

Sharon Mesmer is a poet, fiction writer and essayist. Her most recent poetry collection, Greetings from My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books, 2015), was voted “Best of 2015” by Entropy magazine. Other poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch, The Virgin Formica, Half Angel/Half Lunch and Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books). Four of her poems appear in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (second edition, 2013). Recent work appears in Fence, New American Writing, American Poetry Review, On the Seawall, Posit, Maintenant, The Arts Fuse and Heavy Feather Review, among others. Her poetry collection in Romanian translation by Paul Doru Mugur, Chiar așa ("Just This") was published by Charmides-Bucharest in 2021. She is also the author of three fiction collections: The Empty Quarter and In Ordinary Time from Hanging Loose Press and Ma Vie à Yonago ("My Life in Yonago") from Hachette in French translation by Daniel Bismuth. Her essays, reviews and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine/The Cut, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Commonweal, Teachers and Writers Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail among others. Her awards include a Jerome Foundation mentoring award (for grantee Elisabeth Workman) and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships. She teaches creative writing at New York University and The New School. https://sharonmesmer.com/