Sharon Hashimoto is a writing instructor at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Washington. A life-long resident of Seattle, she enjoys the landscapes and history particular to that area. Her fiction has appeared in North American Review, The Rambler, and Crab Orchard Review. New stories are forthcoming in Tampa Review  and Shenandoah. Her first book of poems, The Crane Wife, was co-winner of the Nicholas Roerich prize and published in 2003 by Story Line Press. [Read]