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Rumpus Original Fiction: In the Large Room Where Your Future Is Kept

March 13th, 2019

She told herself it was a new beginning. Nothing would be taken for granted again.

Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster, and two novels, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac and The Cassandra. Sharma’s writing has appeared in em>Electric Lit, Slice, the New York Times, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and has garnered such awards as the 2016 Washington State Book Award, the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State and lives in Spokane with her husband and children.