Kerrin P. Sharpe is a poet who has been published in journals and anthologies that include Hue & Cry, the Listener, Poetry NZ, Turbine, Best New Zealand Poems, and The Best of 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 a writer in residence at St. Andrews College and teaches creative writing at the Hagley Writers' Institute. She is the author of Three Days in a Wishing Well.