ABOUT SHARON ADARLO

in brief /

Sharon Adarlo is a writer, journalist and artist living in Newark, New Jersey.

She was born in a little house by a river canal in Manila, Philippines and moved to the United States when she was three years old.

Past jobs include crime reporter, private investigator, welder and brick mason.

Sharon now focuses on storytelling, whether in words or visuals and sometimes combining the two.

longer biography /

Sharon is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Houston Chronicle, Al Jazeera America, The Star-Ledger, Hyperallergic, The Awl and other outlets.

Her art, which is held in several private collections, is multidisciplinary in scope and includes drawings, paintings, illustrations, animation and mixed-media.

Much of what she makes is driven by an impulse to craft narrative as a way to explain and explore the human condition and the world.

Humor (both dark and light) and surrealism characterize her personal, creative output. Sharon is also deeply into myths and fairy tales, outsiders, tales of migration and transformation, and the environment.

current and upcoming activities include /

• Resident artist at the Prison Journalism Project (PJP), where Sharon contributes illustrations and animated vignettes. She is also writing and illustrating a comic book that teaches journalism to prison inmates across the country for PJP.

• A short story in the inaugural issue of The Newarker, a magazine with journalism, reviews, commentary, essays and fiction for the city of Newark.

• A mini-comic book workshop for Princeton University’s 2021 Wintersession. Participants to include undergrad and grad students and faculty. More information here.

• “Sofia of the Crags,” an animated short film about undocumented immigrants and refugees in America. Brooklyn-based writer and journalist Halley Bondy wrote the script for “Sofia of the Crags” while Sharon has been working on the visual portion of the project.

journalism and communications work /

Sharon’s background as a journalist and communications professional is extensive. More on that can be found here.

Sharon can be reached at sharonadarlo at gmail dot com.