Paula Sharp

Paula Sharp is the author of the novels Crows over a Wheatfield, Lost in Jersey City, and The Woman Who Was Not All There, and of the short story collectionrn The Imposter. She has received numerous literary honors, including an NEA fellowship, and the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award. The daughter of an anthropologist, Sharp was born in San Diego, California, in 1957, and grew up in North Carolina, New Orleans, and Wisconsin. Sharp lived for many years in Jersey City, New Jersey, where she worked as a Catholic school teacher, Spanish-English translator, secretary, and criminal investigator. After graduating from Columbia University Law School in 1985, she served as a public defender for the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. She currently lives in New York State.