Sharon Chmielarz's poems are published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent, Margie, The Hudson Review, Commonweal, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, The Seneca Review, Louisiana Literature and many others. Shes had three childrens picture books published and travel memoirs anthologized in The House on Via Gombito, Talking of Hands, and Inn Near Kyoto. Shes received a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, MN State Arts Board and Region 2 grants. Sharon is the recipient of the 2012 Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize from Water~Stone Review. Calling was awarded first runner-up in the Indie Book Awards, 2011. A finalist in the National Poetry Series, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 99, 01, 02, 05, 07, 10, and 13.

Shes been featured on American Life in Poetry and translated into French and Polish. The Rhubarb King won a Merit Award from the 2007 Midwest Independent Publishers Association. Shes served as readings coordinator for SASE at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts; she has read in several venues in the Twin Cities, Duluth, New York, Toronto, Tucson, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. The Other Mozart has been made into a two-part opera.

Her latest books are Love from the Yellowstone Trail (2013) and Visibility: Ten Miles, a Prairie Memoir in Photography and Poetry (2015).