Sharon Riley

About

Sharon is an investigative journalist, currently covering Alberta, Canada, for The Narwhal. Her essays, interviews, and long-form nonfiction have been published by The Walrus, Harper’s, The Tyee, J-Source, Reader's Digest, Alberta Views, and Maisonneuve, among others.Her work has been recognized in numerous award ceremonies, including as a finalist in the short-feature category of the 2019 Digital Publishing Awards for her story "The Lost Summer," as a finalist for the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists awards for her story "Life After Coal," and as a finalist in the 2017 National Magazine Awards' Best New Magazine Writer category. She was a 2017 recipient of the Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb Research Grant for literary arts and was a finalist for the inaugural Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism in 2018 for her cover story for The Walrus about automation in the trucking industry.Sharon has also worked as a Canada-based freelance researcher, fact-checker, and copy-editor. She has worked with Harper's Magazine, VICE Magazine (where she was named an 'Employee of the Month'), and The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, in collaboration with The Washington Post Magazine, Politico, The Huffington Post Highline, The Intercept, and many others.