Sharony Green, a multi-hyphenate storyteller, is a native of Miami, Florida, with roots in Georgia, Mississippi and the Bahamas. She began her life in Coconut Grove before her family relocated north to then-Carol City when she was in grade school. Following her 1989 graduation from the University of Miami, where she majored in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science in School of Communications, she began working as a journalist for The Miami Herald and later, at sister-papers in Detroit and Columbus, Georgia. Amid changes in the newspaper industry, she earned an MA in Dance and Related Studies (History, Film and Theatre) at UNC-Greensboro and a PhD in History at the University of Illinois. She has written four books including The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras (John Hopkins University Press, 2023). Her first book Cuttin’ the Rug Under the Moonlit Sky: Stories and Stories About a Bunch of Women Named Mae (1997) was adapted for a 2005 choreopoem that premiered at the Broach Theatre in Greensboro, NC.
In 2020, she was awarded PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for a oral history project on the Baa Haas, a once little-known community in northwest Miami-Dade County.
Sharony is also a visual artist and screenwriter whose work has placed in several noteworthy competitions including Stowe Story Labs. She is also an Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama. For more, visit www.sharonygreen.com.
