Sharon Pajka, PhD, is a professor of English at Gallaudet University. She is the author of Women Writers Buried in Virginia (2021) and The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe (2023), a 2024 Saturday “Visiter” Award Winner for “Adaptations of E.A. Poe’s Life or Works,” Haunted Virginia Cemeteries (2025), and forthcoming books on Virginia’s haunted colleges and Virginia witchlore. On the weekends, find her in the cemetery giving history tours or volunteering.
