About the Poet
Sharon Perkins Ackerman holds an M.Ed from UVA. Her poems appear in the Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, Kestrel, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Appalachian Places, Salvation South, Broad River Review, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, Blue Mountain Review, and others. She is the winner of the Hippocrates Poetry in Medicine award, London, 2019 and short-listed for the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize, 2024. She has three poetry collections, the latest is Sweeping the Porch (Pine Row Press, 2026). Ackerman is poetry editor for Streetlight Magazine and serves as judge for the Porches Poetry Fellowship Prize in Nelson County, and is the current secretary for the Poetry Society of Virginia.
Region
Central
Virginia City or County Affiliation
Albemarle County
Years of Residence in Virginia
42
Current City/State of Residence
Charlottesville, VA
Gender
Female
Year of Birth
1957
Keywords/Tags
Appalachia, Place, Family
Website
Published Works or Performances
Books
Sweeping the Porch (Pine Row Press, 2026)
A Legacy of Birds (Kelsay Books, 2025)
Revised Light (Main Street Rag Publishers, 2021)
Editorial
Streetlight Anthology (Streetlight Magazine, 2019-2026)
Selected Individual Poems or Performances
“A Walk After Retirement” (In Southern Humanities Review, 2023)
“Perry County, 1968” (In Broad River Review)
“September,” “Family Cabin in a Coal Town,” “Lightning Bugs,” “Box Fan” (In Cutleaf Journal, 2025)
“Crepe Myrtle” (In Blue Mountain Review , 2024)
Meridian: “Tomatoes”
Sharon Perkins Ackerman