Sharon Guskin

Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Based In: Brooklyn, NY

Year at Millay: 2025

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY; Artist-in-Residence, VCCA Residency, Amherst, VA; Artist-in-Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY; Artist-in-Residence, Residency Program, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL.

Website: http://sharonguskin.com

Sharon Guskin is the author of the novel, The Forgetting Time (Flatiron Books/ MacMillan), an international bestseller which has been published in over 20 countries.

In addition to writing fiction, Guskin has worked as a writer and producer of award-winning documentary films, including STOLEN, a documentary film about the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist in Boston, and ON MEDITATION. She’s also a Buddhist meditation teacher in New York City. Guskin has a BA from Yale College and an MFA in Fiction from the Columbia University.