Sharon Dilworth is the author of two collections of short stories, The Long White ­and Women Drinking Benedictine, and two novels Year of the Ginkgo and My Riviera. Her newest book, Two Sides, Three Rivers, is a collection of stories that take place in Pittsburgh. Sharon has won a National Endowment for Fiction grant, a Pushcart Prize in Fiction, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. She is the director of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University.