About Nancy

Nancy Sharp, MFA, Creative Nonfiction, leads narrative medicine efforts at Denver Health, where she regularly profiles clinicians, leads workshops, provides editorial coaching and helps to tell the story of this 165-year-old organization. She also writes for Denver Health’s CEO. Nancy is an Adjoint Instructor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, teaching both narrative and reflective writing, and a certified instructor in Guided Autobiography (GAB), an evidenced-based storytelling curriculum. Between teaching and mentoring individuals at workshops, special events and bespoke retreats, guest lecturing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Regis University’s MFA Program and more, and teaching at Denver Health and the University of Colorado, Nancy estimates that she has impacted hundreds of writers, their stories, books and projects—and it is through this lens of teaching others where she shines.

Nancy is the author of the memoir Both Sides Now: A True Story of Love, Loss and Bold Living, winner of the Colorado Book Award and other literary prizes. A story of deep human paradoxes, Both Sides Now illuminates the caregiver's perspective. Nancy also authored a children’s book called Because the Sky is Everywhere that is used as a resource in palliative and hospice settings. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and media and a book she ghostwrote for a client led to her becoming an associate producer on the documentary “Who Are the Marcuses?”

Nancy serves on the board of directors at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and has led writing retreats in places like Charleston, SC, Santa Fe, NM and at the legendary Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC. She can’t wait to help medical and health care professionals flourish in Florence.

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