Sharon Spaulding

After trekking the Gobi Desert on camels, hiking Western China on horses, and mushing sled dogs in the Yukon, Sharon returned to her first love, writing. Passionate about women's voices, she began researching Mary Ware Dennett, one of the most pivotal and unsung leaders of the early U.S. women's rights movement. Sharon's essays about Dennett have been published in Smithsonian, Ms. magazine, and New Hampshire Magazine. While researching Dennett, Sharon discovered other remarkable women whose stories had been forgotten by history. In 2020, she began Women Make History: Stories We Should Have Learned in School, a newsletter sharing inspiring stories of groundbreaking women, which led to her book, "Women Make History: Fifty-Three Stories of Courage, Strength & Resilience."

Women Make History features women who overcame tremendous obstacles to achieve great things, women swept aside by history, or whose achievements were wrongly attributed to men. Their stories represent a kaleidoscope of experiences and backgrounds, spanning from Colonial America through the end of the 20th century.

Sharon lives near Salt Lake City, Utah, where she loves hiking, skiing, and biking the Wasatch Mountains with her black lab, Hank, and her husband, Carl, who illustrated the book. Sharon's Women Make History Community gathers online and in person to celebrate and promote the achievements of groundbreaking women past, present, and future.