Sam Sharp

  • Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction 2025

Sam Sharp grew up in north central Ohio.

Inspired by that home landscape, his work explores relationships between humans and other animals, wilderness and culture, masculinity and performance, humor and violence, the Midwest and the Mountain West. He holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming with a concurrent degree in Environment & Natural Resources. Currently, he splits his time between Ohio and Montana, where he teaches for the Wild Rockies Field Institute. You can read his essays in Midwest Review, Western Confluence, Midwest Weird, and elsewhere.