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Sharmagne Leland-St. John, 15 time Pushcart Prize nominee, is a Native American author, poet, concert performer, lyricist, artist and filmmaker.
She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 19-year-old literary and cultural arts journal Quill and Parchment.com. Sharmagne spends time between her home in the Hollywood Hills, in California, her fly fishing lodge on the Stillaguamish River in the Pacific Northwest, a hacienda/ writer’s retreat in Taos, N.M and a mini villa in Tuscany. She is the founder of fogdog poetry in Arlington, WA and tours the United States, Canada, and England, as a performance poet.
She is widely anthologised and her poetry and short stories appear as well in many online literary journals. She has published 4 books 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).
Sharmagne is editor of Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems on Motherhood (2012,) winner of the 2013 International Book Award Honouring Excellence in Mainstream and Independent Publishing as well as one of four finalists for the NIEA. (National Independent Excellence Award).
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