Sharona Muir, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, directs the MFA/BFA Creative Writing Program at Bowling Green State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, an M.A. in Creative Writing and English from Boston University, and an A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She is the author of three books, most recently, The Book of Telling: Tracing the Secrets of My Father's Lives, Random House/Schocken Books; The Artificial Paradise: Science Fiction And American Reality, in the “Studies in Literature and Science” series from University of Michigan Press; and During Ceasefire, a collection of poetry from Harper & Row. For her creative work, she has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship, and others. Her poetry and prose has been published in numerous journals including The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Harvard Magazine, Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, Partisan Review, and The Jerusalem Report. Awards that she has received for her scholarly work include the Whiting Foundation Fellowship for doctoral studies and the Walter Rathenau Fellowship in Science and Culture Studies at the Technische Universitat Berlin. She has taught previously at Stanford University and at Tel-Aviv University. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem.
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