Sharon McCartney is the author of For and Against (2010), The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder (2007), Karenin Sings the Blues (2003) and Under the Abdominal Wall (1999). In 2008 she received the Acorn/Plantos People’s Prize for poetry for The Love Song of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She released Hard Ass with Palimpsest Press in 2013.