Kerrin P. Sharpe was born in Wellington but now lives in Christchurch where she is a poet and a teacher of creative writing. She completed the Victoria University Original Composition programme taught by Bill Manhire in 1976 and has recently returned to writing as her family have grown up and left home. Kerrin's poems have appeared in many journals, including Hue Cry, JAAM, the Listener, Poetry NZ, Sport, Takahe, Turbine and the Press, in Best NZ Poems 08, 09 and 10, and in The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems. In 2008 she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher's Award from the Institute of Modern Letters. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at St Andrews College and teaches creative writing at the Hagley Writers' Institute.