Quentin Sherwood received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. His poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, New Letters, and Dunes Review. He and his wife resided in Michigan. An accomplished athlete, musician, and painter, he worked as a newspaper reporter, kayaking instructor, and carpenter. He was killed while bicycling in September 2002. He was forty years old.