An artist that celebrates African-American Southern Migration histories/queerly, Sharon is a USA Artist Fellow, recipient of Yale's Windham-Campbell Prize in Drama, Playwrights’Center Core Membership, McKnight National Fellowship and she is an Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre. A Doris Duke Performing Artist, Sharon has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. A New Dramatists Alum and MAP Fund Scaffolding for Practicing Artists Coach, Sharon's dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The Show is streaming on the Twin Cities PBS platform. 53rd State Press published bull-jean & dem/dey back in 2022 and will release a collection of Sharon's performance texts titled, From The Marrow, in 2025. Sharon's work is featured in Volume 110, No. 4, Winter 2022 of The Yale Review, Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature, Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought, Feminist Studies Vol 48  Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called by Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! In 2025 The Sledgehammer Series (an imprint of Tripwire Harlot Press) will publish Sharon's, Before You Go : An Offering. More at: : sharonbridgforth.com