Kerrin P. Sharpe is a teacher of creative writing. She completed Bill Manhire's Original Composition class at Victoria University of Wellington in 1976. Over the last two years she has been published widely including: Best New Zealand Poems 2008, Turbine 07 and 09, Snorkel, Bravado, Takahe, the New Zealand Listener, Poetry NZ, Junctures, Sport and The Press. In 2008, she was awarded the New Zealand Post Creative Writing Teacher's Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters.Sharpe comments: One morning when I was out walking I was startled to find a deer's head impaled on an iron fence. I tried to write a poem that would put the deer back where he truly belonged.