Sharon DeBartolo Carmack has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing and will graduate in May 2027 with an MA in History. She is a thirty-five-year veteran Certified Genealogist®, Retired (2024).
Sharon is the bestselling author of thirty books, including In Search of Maria B. Hayden: The American Medium Who Brought Spiritualism to the U.K.; and If We Can Winter This: Essays and Genealogies: The Gordon Family of County Leitrim, Ireland, and The Norris Family of County Tyrone, (now) Northern Ireland. She is the co-author with James W. Warren and Manish Kohli, MD, of Empowered by Hope: The Story of a Stage 4 Prostate Cancer Patient, His Doctor, and a Woman’s Prospective. Her forthcoming book, The Madame Restell Cases: The Stories and Abortions of Five Women in Nineteenth-Century New York, will be published by Roman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury in February 2027.
A few of Sharon’s bestselling guidebooks include Telling Her Story: A Guide to Researching and Writing about Women; Tell It Short: A Guide to Writing Your Family History in Brief, 2nd ed., and You Can Write Your Family History.
Her work has appeared in almost every major genealogical journal, as well as literary journals: Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Portland Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Steinbeck Review, and Literary Hub, to name a few.
Sharon is on the English adjunct faculty for Southern New Hampshire University, and she serves on the Editorial Board of Steinbeck Review.
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