Sharlie West has attended the writing programs at George Washington University, Clarion University, and at The Writer's Center in Bethesda,  MD,  where she studied with Rod Jellema and Rose Solari.  Her poems have appeared in Gargoyle, The Baltimore Review, Wordwrights!, Bogg, California Quarterly, Minimus, Pacific Coast Journal, and many others.  Online publications include 100 Poets Against the War and Times New Roman (Nth Position). Chapbooks include House of Bones, Sea Born, Bayou Moon and On the Avenue (Shadows Ink Publications).  She has also published short stories and a novel, Maybe Tomorrow (Dorchester Press).