Sharon Lee, SFWA's First Executive Director
Baltimore-born Sharon Lee is a writer, journalist and generalist.
Sharon's publications
range from short stories, novels, and poetry to TV and radio commercials,
as well as
webwork and print advertising. Her advertising accounts have included Godiva
Chocolates and Muse Software's original Castle Wolfenstein game, as well as
banks
and auto dealerships.
In addition to her writing and advertising work, Sharon was the Administrative
Assistant to the Dean of the University of Maryland's School of Social Work
and held a
similar position in the Chancellor's Office at the University's Baltimore
County
Campus. She was an office systems consultant and Marketing Manager for several
firms.
After moving from Baltimore Sharon was Newsletter Editor for the Maine
Department of Economic and Community Development before joining the Central
Maine Morning Sentinel's "night side" staff as a copy editor for daily and
weekend
editions. More recently Sharon has freelanced travel and human interest
features for
several area newspapers and shared the OuterEdge SF book review column in the
Sentinel and Kennebec Journal with co-author Steve Miller.
Sharon credits the 300 baud modem on her first personal computer -- a
Kaypro 2x -- with introducing her to the world of BBS and online
communications. She
became an active member of the Baltimore BBS scene in the early 80s and was
both a
co-sysop and relief sysop for several systems in the region before moving
to Maine.
Sharon is former Co-sysop-at-Large for Maine's disability BBS, The Maine
Meeting
Place, and co-owner of Circular Logic, a community BBS, in Winslow, Maine.
Sharon first came to the attention of the SF field in 1976 when she won the
BaltiCon 10 short story contest. Since then she's published short stories,
novelettes
and novellas on her own and has collaborated with Steve Miller on a series
of novels
(including Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors and Carpe Diem) and short
fiction set
in the Liaden Universe.
In the year before becoming SFWA's Executive Director, Sharon served as
part-time Marketing Manager for Walden, Inc, a Maine-based international
manufacturer of custom wastewater treatment systems and also served as a
consultant to
the Maine State Department of Agriculture where she did database
development work
and created a website for the Division of Market and Production Development.
Sharon Lee lives in rural Winslow, Maine, with Steve Miller -- her husband
of 19 years -- and four rather insistent muses in the form of cats.
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