Kerrin P. Sharpe has published three previous collections of poetry, all with VUP: three days in a wishing well (2012), there's a medical name for this (2014), and rabbit rabbit (2015). Her poems have been published in a wide range of journals and anthologies in New Zealand and internationally, including Sport, Landfall, Best New Zealand Poems, The London Grip, Oxford Poets 13, Blackbox Manifold, and POETRY. She lives in Christchurch.