Sharon Pomerantz's first novel Rich Boy was the 2010 winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, and was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Ten Best Novels of 2010, and by Booklist as one of the Ten Best First Novels of 2010. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, as well as on NPR's Selected Shorts program, and her story "Ghost Knife" was included in Best American Short Stories 2003. She teaches writing at the University of Michigan.

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