Sharmane Fury is a two-time Golden Crane Award-winning podcaster, storyteller, public speaker, and cultural commentator with more than eight years of experience creating conversations around identity, culture, belonging, and the realities people are often expected to navigate quietly.

She is best known as the creator and longtime host of *Militantly Mixed*, an award-winning podcast centering Mixed-Race, multiracial, and transracially adopted voices. Her work has also included podcasts exploring pop culture, fandom, travel, and storytelling.

Following the sudden and unexpected death of her husband, Tristan, Sharmane found herself learning how to build a life inside circumstances she never chose. That experience became part of the foundation for *Stay-at-Home Widow*, which she co-hosts with her lifelong friend LaVonna.

On the show, Sharmane brings the same candor, humor, curiosity, and willingness to have uncomfortable conversations that have shaped her work throughout her podcasting career. *Stay-at-Home Widow* creates space for honest conversations about widowhood, identity, loneliness, friendship, anger, laughter, rebuilding, and the everyday fuckery of grief, particularly through the experiences of Black and Brown women.

Sharmane does not approach grief as something to overcome or “move on” from. Instead, her work explores what it means to keep living, changing, laughing, creating, and figuring out who you are after the life you expected is no longer available to you.