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Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada Sheri Benning
Sheri Benning grew up on a small farm in central Saskatchewan. Her second book of poetry, Thin Moon Psalm, published by Brick Books, 2007, won the Saskatchewan Book Award’s Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and The City of Saskatoon Book Award. An earlier version of Thin Moon Psalm won the Alfred G. Bailey Award. Her first book of poetry, Earth After Rain, Thistledown Press, 2001, also won two Saskatchewan Book Awards – the Anne Szumigalski Poetry Award and the Brenda Riches MacDonald First Book Award. Sheri is the recipient of the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Achievement in the Arts, the Earle Birney Poetry Prize, and the second place recipient of the Bliss Carmen Poetry Award. |
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