About Sheryl A native of New Orleans, Sheryl St. Germain has taught creative writing at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Knox College and Iowa State University. She currently directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University where she also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. Her work has received several awards, including two NEA Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship, the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, the Ki Davis Award from the Aspen Writers Foundation, and most recently the William Faulkner Award for the personal essay. Her books include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa, Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, and The Journals of Scheherazade. She has also published a book of translations of the Cajun poet Jean Arceneaux, Je Suis Cadien.A book of lyric essays, Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, was published in 2003 by The University of Utah Press. Her most recent book is Let it Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems, published by Autumn House Press in 2007. Email Sheryl Awards Special mention, Best American Essays, 2003 for "Bodies of Water: A Suite from the South". Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2002. Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2002. Three Pushcart Nominations, 2001. Distinguished Aluma, University of Texas at Dallas, 2001 William Faulkner Creative Writing Award for the Personal Essay, 1999. Event Magazine, First Place, Creative Nonfiction, 1999. Crab Orchard Review, Honorable Mention, Creative Nonfiction, 1999. Hedgebrook Writes Retreat Residency, Summer 1999. National Endowment for the Humanities Institute in the Environmental Imagination, Summer, 1997. National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, 1991, 1996. Dobie-Paisano Fellow, August 1990-February 1991. Special Mention, Pushcart Prize, 1992; Three Pushcart nominations, 1989, 1992. Finalist, The Writer's Voice Awards, 1992. The American Literary Review Poetry Award, 1990. Ki Davis Award for Poetry, Aspen Writer Foundation, 1989, 1990. National Federation of State Poetry Societies, First place, 1989. First Prize, Perivale Press Chapbook Competition, 1989.