Mary Sharratt is an American writer who has lived in Germany and England for over two decades. The winner of the 2005 WILLA Literary Award and a Minnesota Book Award Finalist, she has also written several acclaimed novels including Summit Avenue, The Real Minerva, The Vanishing Point, and the Nautilus award-winning Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen. She is the co-editor of the subversive-fiction anthology Bitch Lit, which celebrates strong women who break all the rules.
