Sharon is Founder and Board of Trustees President of Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, the first and only prize given to celebrate the power of the written word to contribute to peace. She is skilled in teaching, public speaking, creative writing, nonprofits, literature, and editing.
With compassion and a sharp-eyed view of history, this year’s finalists provide some much-needed guidance in finding our way to peace. The stories featured this year help us take comfort in our shared humanity and assure us that, no matter what, the human spirit, and the hope indomitable within it, prevails.
Today the Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced its 2022 finalists. The only international literary peace prize given in the US, the prize “honors writers whose work uses the power of literat…