SHERI BENNINGSheri Benning grew up on a small farm in central Saskatchewan. Her second book of poetry, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books, 2007) won the Saskatchewan Book Awards' Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and The City of Saskatoon Book Award. Her first book of poetry, Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press, 2001), also won two Saskatchewan Books Awards -- the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and the Brenda Riches MacDonald First Book Award. Benning is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta and a Research Fellow in the University of Glasgow's creative writing program.
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