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Sharon Gibson Palermo was raised in New Jersey, studied in Boston and Halifax, married a Canadian in 1975 and has since lived in Calgary, Toronto and Halifax. She holds an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education and an M.A. in Reading Education, with a thesis on doing philosophy with children. She has taught at the pre-school, elementary and university levels, and has worked with children in peer mediation and finding peaceful ways of solving conflicts. She has written two young adult novels, and some short stories.
Sharon has travelled across the U.S. and Canada several times and has made a few trips to Europe, but she most particularly enjoys day and weekend trips around the province of Nova Scotia. She has two adult sons. Since her spinal cord injury in 1996, Sharon is continuing writing and writing-related activities, and travelling.
- "The Light in Venice," in Prairie Fire (ed. Linda Holeman), Vol. 19, No. 3, Autumn 1998. ISSN 0821-1124.
- The Lie That Had To Be The Lie That Had To Be. Thistledown Press, 1995. ISBN 1-895449-44-8.
- Nominated for the 1998 Silver Birch Award.
- Nominated for the 1998 Red Cedar Award.
- Nominated for the 1997 Blue Heron Award.
- Selected as a 1995/96 Our Choice Book by The Canadian Children's Book Centre.
- Nominated for the 1995 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction.
- "The best quality of this historical novel is that, while informing young readers about the internment of Italo-Canadian citizens during World War II, it engages them in a moving story about growing through adversity." - from "The Lie That Had to Be," a book review by Kathleen Kellett-Betsos, CM: Canadian Review of Materials, Vol. 3, No. 9 (January 3, 1997).
- "Guiding Discussions: the Teachers' Role," in When We Talk: Essays on Classroom Conversation. Fort Worth Texas, Analytic Teaching Press, Texas Wesleyan University, 1992.
- "I am Hilda Burrows," in The Blue Jean Collection. Saskatoon, Thistledown Press, 1992. ISBN 0-920633-94-3.
- First place winner of the 1992 Thistledown Press Short Story Contest for Young Adult Fiction
- Chestnuts for the Brave. New Wave Series, Halifax, Nimbus Publishers, 1991. ISBN 1-55109-029-5.
- "A Christmas Tree for Joey," in Pottersfield Portfolio, Children's Edition, June 1989.
- "Yes, Teachers, Young Children Can Do Philosophy," in Democracy, Children and Pedagogy.
