Sharon White's book Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. She is the author of two poetry collections, EVE & HER APPLE and Bone House . Her memoir, Field Notes: A Geography of Mourning , received the Julia Ward Howe Prize, Honorable Mention, from the Boston Author's Club. Some of her other awards include a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, the Leeway Foundation Award for Achievement, a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship, the Calvino Prize for her fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in many… magazines and journals including Isotope , House Beautiful , Appalachia , Kalliope , and North American Review . She teaches writing at Temple University in Philadelphia.