Sharon Olson moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey in 2012 after retiring in 2007 from the Palo Alto (California) City Library where she had been a reference librarian since 1978. Her book The Long Night of Flying was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2006. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Crab Orchard Review, Arroyo Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Off the Coast, and Cider Press Review. Two of her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.