Sharleen Mondal
@sharleenmondal.bsky.social
English prof, fiction writer @ Ashland University. Ph.D. University of Washington. Bread Loaf/VONA alum. Reposts/likes aren't endorsements; opinions are solely mine.
First one down for my latest essay. Good luck to my fellow creative writers who are submitting your work this season! 💜 #WritingCommunity
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
First one down for my latest essay. Good luck to my fellow creative writers who are submitting your work this season! 💜 #WritingCommunity
Tomorrow is my birthday--time for my annual book giveaway in gratitude. This year: Andrea Gibson's collection, or Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca's anthology. Please DM with your info if you'd like a copy and specify which book (U.S. and Canada only). 🙏🏾💜 #WritingCommunity
October 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tomorrow is my birthday--time for my annual book giveaway in gratitude. This year: Andrea Gibson's collection, or Reyna Grande and Sonia Guiñansaca's anthology. Please DM with your info if you'd like a copy and specify which book (U.S. and Canada only). 🙏🏾💜 #WritingCommunity
Ready for the remainder of my Paper #1 "exit interviews" with composition students today. Talking with them first and understanding what they tried to do helps me respond more effectively to them as writers when I leave written feedback. This is how we do "accent on the individual" at Ashland. 💜💛
September 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Ready for the remainder of my Paper #1 "exit interviews" with composition students today. Talking with them first and understanding what they tried to do helps me respond more effectively to them as writers when I leave written feedback. This is how we do "accent on the individual" at Ashland. 💜💛
It's a day I hardly dared hope for. This is the first full long book I read to kid when he was a baby. Now older and a reader in his own right, he's requesting to read it together. And then writes his own notes and observations afterwards. 🥹 Here's my tattered childhood copy that we're using. 💜😍
September 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It's a day I hardly dared hope for. This is the first full long book I read to kid when he was a baby. Now older and a reader in his own right, he's requesting to read it together. And then writes his own notes and observations afterwards. 🥹 Here's my tattered childhood copy that we're using. 💜😍
So very excited for this virtual panel tonight titled "Get Real: Being Vulnerable in Fact and Fiction" with Kiese Laymon and Deesha Philyaw, part of Literary Cleveland's Inkubator Conference! #CleInk25
September 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So very excited for this virtual panel tonight titled "Get Real: Being Vulnerable in Fact and Fiction" with Kiese Laymon and Deesha Philyaw, part of Literary Cleveland's Inkubator Conference! #CleInk25
Today's a day for deep work, beginning with a virtual write-in with Ashland colleagues (we do these once a week for our AU Research & Writing Community). Typing was a little...interesting 😂 It felt so good to advance this essay and write with my colleagues! #AmWriting #LitProfLife
September 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Today's a day for deep work, beginning with a virtual write-in with Ashland colleagues (we do these once a week for our AU Research & Writing Community). Typing was a little...interesting 😂 It felt so good to advance this essay and write with my colleagues! #AmWriting #LitProfLife
First virtual panel of Lit Cleveland's Inkubator Conference on writing nonfiction. Incredible writers Dr. Eve L. Ewing and Dr. Imani Perry in this conversation, generously moderated by Dr. Joy R. Bostic. #CleInk25
September 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
First virtual panel of Lit Cleveland's Inkubator Conference on writing nonfiction. Incredible writers Dr. Eve L. Ewing and Dr. Imani Perry in this conversation, generously moderated by Dr. Joy R. Bostic. #CleInk25
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September 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The hardest part of fall getting underway is getting less of her.
August 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The hardest part of fall getting underway is getting less of her.
It's that weekend of the year! Went and saw Cat Video Fest 2025 at my local independent theater (tickets support a local rescue). Kid couldn't come with me this year, but I had very good company 💜 and once again this year, wore my Borg cat t-shirt. #CatVideoFest #Cats
August 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's that weekend of the year! Went and saw Cat Video Fest 2025 at my local independent theater (tickets support a local rescue). Kid couldn't come with me this year, but I had very good company 💜 and once again this year, wore my Borg cat t-shirt. #CatVideoFest #Cats
Spotted this afternoon at Loganberry Books in Cleveland 💜 by @theferocity.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Spotted this afternoon at Loganberry Books in Cleveland 💜 by @theferocity.bsky.social
Heat advisory today, but not a bad view while working indoors. Practicing deliberate slowness this morning.
July 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Heat advisory today, but not a bad view while working indoors. Practicing deliberate slowness this morning.
One for our time. Seeing and telling the story, it's part of the surviving. Mary Oliver's "Breakage." #MaryOliver
July 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
One for our time. Seeing and telling the story, it's part of the surviving. Mary Oliver's "Breakage." #MaryOliver
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I took this at the Pittsburgh show I went to in May. Had no idea. The mighty Matt Cameron.
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I took this at the Pittsburgh show I went to in May. Had no idea. The mighty Matt Cameron.
About this morning. 💜
June 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
About this morning. 💜
Sometimes this is what you need. So grateful for the woods behind my deck and the peace an Ohio summer evening can bring, in the midst of so much unrest in the world.
June 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sometimes this is what you need. So grateful for the woods behind my deck and the peace an Ohio summer evening can bring, in the midst of so much unrest in the world.
Sharing this morning's heaven. Please take some if you need it--I've got lots. 💜
June 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Sharing this morning's heaven. Please take some if you need it--I've got lots. 💜
Father's Day weekend. I'm so fortunate I had a gentle, caring, encouraging, brilliant, funny, affectionate dad whose love will follow me everywhere I go. I didn't always have his approval 😂 but I sure had his love. May the weekend be gentle for others missing their dads or for whom it's tough. 💜
June 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Father's Day weekend. I'm so fortunate I had a gentle, caring, encouraging, brilliant, funny, affectionate dad whose love will follow me everywhere I go. I didn't always have his approval 😂 but I sure had his love. May the weekend be gentle for others missing their dads or for whom it's tough. 💜
Jazz club last night. One of the rare occasions summer me isn't in a tshirt and running pants (which I otherwise live in). Live music feeds my soul. 💜
June 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Jazz club last night. One of the rare occasions summer me isn't in a tshirt and running pants (which I otherwise live in). Live music feeds my soul. 💜
When you're trying to write but your heart keeps melting. She!! 🩶🤍 (Lots of rereading, making notes within the original draft, and mapping today to piece the parts of this braided essay together.) 💜💜
June 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When you're trying to write but your heart keeps melting. She!! 🩶🤍 (Lots of rereading, making notes within the original draft, and mapping today to piece the parts of this braided essay together.) 💜💜
Today's writing spot. Grateful. Real. Powered by cherry tomatoes. Best line I've written today in the creative NF essay I'm working on: "I was tired of pretending this was a prize." #AmWriting
June 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Today's writing spot. Grateful. Real. Powered by cherry tomatoes. Best line I've written today in the creative NF essay I'm working on: "I was tired of pretending this was a prize." #AmWriting
Re: kids' books, I recommend Jason Shiga's MEANWHILE (which I discovered at the coparents' house where we did a joint Mother's Day celebration this year--that's kid showing me in the second pic). The level of labyrinthine adventure is just unreal, beyond anything I've ever encountered. #JasonShiga
June 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Re: kids' books, I recommend Jason Shiga's MEANWHILE (which I discovered at the coparents' house where we did a joint Mother's Day celebration this year--that's kid showing me in the second pic). The level of labyrinthine adventure is just unreal, beyond anything I've ever encountered. #JasonShiga
Today's read. This one's been in the TBR pile for a long time.
June 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today's read. This one's been in the TBR pile for a long time.
