Sheri Benning grew up on a farm in central Saskatchewan, Canada. She's the author of The Season's Vagrant Light (Carcanet Press), as well as Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press) published in Canada. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in North American, British, and European journals and anthologies, most recently The Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, and PN Review. Benning completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow and currently lives in Saskatchewan, where she teaches.