Ms. Aubrey served as a parent educator for fifteen years and helped improve the Mat-Su Central School program in Wasilla, Alaska where her efforts earned her the “Partners in Education Award”and the “Champion of Children Award”in 2011. Later she completed the Writing for Young Readers: Opening the Treasure Chest MOOC developed by The Commonwealth Educational Trust in 2016.
This course combined with her homeschool experience inspired her to compose children’s fiction. Jared the Giant, The Secret, her first picture book is scheduled for release May 2021, educating children on arachnophobia and spiders.
Sharon’s love of education and literature also led her to serve at the Young Writer’s Conference in Palmer, Alaska in 2018 and 2019. A member of the Alaska Writer’s Guild since 2017, Sharon is ardent about promoting the Alaskan book niche and mentoring others.
In 2020, she was awarded the Lin Halterman Memorial Grant Award and also began writing inspirational fiction. Her company sponsored the first Alaskan Book Booth at the State Fair in 2019 collaborating with forty local authors and nonprofits to encourage literacy and hosts the website AlaskanBooks.com for local authors and illustrators.
Separate from her literary passions, Sharon loves spending time with her family and friends, riding ATVs, and exploring the Talkeetna Mountains as a mineral prospector.