Sharmagne Leland-St. John, 7 time Pushcart Prize nominee, is a Native American poet, concert performer, lyricist, artist, and film maker. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the poetry e-zine Quill and Parchment.com. Sharmagne spends time between her home in the Hollywood Hills, in California and her fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in the Pacific Northwest. She is the founder of fogdog poetry in Arlington,WA and tours the United States, Canada, and England, as a performance poet.
Her work can be found in a multitude of anthologies as well as on-line literary journals. She has published 4 collections of poetry Unsung Songs (2003), Silver Tears and Time (2005), Contingencies (2008), La Kalima (2010), and co-authored a book on film production design. Designing Movies: Portrait of a Hollywood Artist (Greenwood/Praeger 2006). She is editor of Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood (2012)