Sharon Wildwind is a Calgary, Alberta author. Originally from Louisiana, she's been in Canada for almost twenty-five years. Taking the advice "write what you know" to heart, she decided to combine a couple of things—protagonists who are nurses, and the fact she’s lived in a couple of interesting places—and use these as a writing advantage.

Her Elizabeth Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen series has three Vietnam veteran protagonists, one of whom is a nurse. For these veterans, adjusting to civilian life is murder. The first book in the series has been published and the second is currently with her agent.

Her Meg Porter/Dan McLaughlin romance-mystery series is, so far, unsold but she's still out there pitching it. Dan McLaughlin is the kind of Mountie you don't want to be involved with, unless you have a lot of stamina. Meg Porter thinks she does. Together they're trying to keep each other, and the hamlet of Whiskeyjack, Alberta, alive.

Sharon also is a non-fiction writer and journal keeper. She teaches memoir-writing workshops, and is also a facilitator for Story Circle Network's Older Women's Legacy Project.

Published Fiction:

· Some Welcome Home (ISBN: 1-59414-275-0) Five Star Press Captain Elizabeth Pepperhawk survived Vietnam, but will she survive Fort Bragg? Whoever dressed a dead body in a World War II uniform, and put it in her bed at Normandy House, wants to shorten not only her military career, but her life.

Published Non-Fiction:

· Dreams That Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam (ISBN: 1-895836-70-0) River Books, Edmonton, Alberta Based on the journal Sharon kept, and the photographs she took, during her year as a U.S. Army nurse in Vietnam.

Sharon Wildwind

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