Sharon Wahl is a writer and documentary film producer living in Tucson, Arizona. Her collection of love stories inspired by classic philosophy texts, "Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances," won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2024. Her stories, essays and poems have appeared in publications including Harper's, the Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, StoryQuarterly, and Pleiades. She studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan, math at M.I.T. and creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.