Kenneth Sherman

Kenneth Sherman (born 1950)

While a student at York University, Sherman co-founded and edited the literary journal WAVES. From 1974-1975 he traveled extensively through Asia. He began his teaching career in 1975 at York University's Atkinson College. For several years he was a full-time faculty member at Sheridan College. He also taught creative writing courses at York University and in the Continuing Education Department at the University of Toronto.

Sherman has published ten books of poetry,

In 2010, after Sherman was diagnosed with kidney cancer, he began keeping a notebook which he turned into the memoir, Wait Time. In 2017, his memoir Wait Time was nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction.

Sherman is a three-time winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Awards.