Kerry Sherin (Wright) received her M.A. in fiction in 1992. She went on to earn a Ph.D. from Temple’s English Department. Now she is an assistant professor of English at Franklin & Marshall, where she is the founding Director of the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House at Franklin & Marshall College. Before joining Franklin & Marshall in 2003, Wright served for six years as the first Director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poems have been published in Poet Lore, Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas, Combo, Capital, New England Review. The recipient of an AWP Intro Award in Poetry, Wright was recognized upon her departure from the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania with the creation of The Kerry Sherin Wright Prize, an annual award that supports an event or project that “best captures” her spirit of “aesthetic capaciousness and literary communitarianism.” She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with her husband Scott and their son Skyler.