Sharon Charde, a family
and marital therapist for the last twenty two years, has led writing
workshops and weekend retreats for women in Lakeville and Block
Island, Rhode Island, since l992. She is now teaching a weekly
creative writing workshop for incarcerated young women at Touchstone,
a residential treatment facility in Litchfield, Ct. She also facilitates
a monthly workshop sponsored by the Empowering Young Women Project
for local teenagers and the Touchstone girls.
She has studied with
Natalie Goldberg and Sharon Olds, and her work has been published
in Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature for Women. Sharon
has received an Honorable Mention in the Michael Egan Memorial
Poetry Contest, Maryland Poetry Review. She is grandmother
and mother to two sons and has lived in Lakeville for over thirty
years with her husband John.
You can email
Sharon with comments and questions.
