About Madeline Sharples
During her 30-year professional career, Madeline Sharples worked as a technical writer/editor and proposal manager in the aerospace business and wrote grant proposals in the nonprofit arena. She started to fulfill her dream to work as a creative writer in the last few years. Her memoir,
Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother’s Memoir of Living with Her Son’s Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide, was released in a hardback edition in 2011 and released in paperback and eBook editions by Dream of Things in 2012.
She also co-authored
Blue-Collar Women: Trailblazing Women Take on Men-Only Jobs,(New Horizon Press, 1994), co-edited the poetry anthology,
The Great American Poetry Show, Volumes 1 and 2, and wrote the poems for two photography books,
The Emerging Goddess and Intimacy (Paul Blieden, photographer). Her poems have also appeared online and in print magazines, most recently the Story Circle Network’s 2013 True Words anthology.
Madeline’s articles appear regularly at the
Aging Bodies website. She also posts at her blog, Choices, and is currently working on a novel. In addition, she is producing a CD of her son’s music as a fundraiser to help erase the stigma of mental illness and prevent suicide. It will drop this summer.
Madeline studied journalism in high school, wrote for the high school newspaper, studied journalism at the U. of Wisconsin, and received a B.A. degree in English from the UCLA.
