Sharon Pomerantz is a graduate of the University of Michigan's M.F.A. program. Her short fiction has appeared in The Black Warrior Review, The Colorado Review, and The Massachusetts Review. Her story "Shoes" was broadcast nationwide on NPR's Selected Shorts program in 1998. Her story "Ghost Knife," from the Ploughshares Fall 2002 issue, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories, 2003. Her first novel, Rich Boy, will be published in summer 2010 by Twelve (Twelvebooks.com).