Sherre Vernon is an educator, a poet and a believer in the mystical power of words. She has been published in dozens of literary journals, including Ars Medica, The Coe Review, Fickle Muses, Eclipse and The Pedestal Magazine. Sherre has written two award-winning chapbooks: Green Ink Wings, her postmodern novella, won the 2005 chapbook award from Elixir Press, and The Name is Perilous, a 2008 poetry chapbook, appeared in the final publication of the journal Ruah. Readers describe Sherre's work as heartbreaking, richly layered, lyrical and intelligent. She strives for emotional precision and linguistic efficiency and feels such effects are most truly achieved by stepping outside of familiar phrases and direct linear narrative and into a dynamic, shimmering grammar. Sherre lives in Los Angeles, California.