His 2017 memoir, Wait Time, was nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction.
[1] While a student at York University, Sherman co-founded and edited the literary journal WAVES.
His book, What the Furies Bring (2009) continues his interest in “the Europe of Primo Levi and Czeslaw Milosz.”[2] Sherman has published ten books of poetry,[3] including the acclaimed long poems, "Words for Elephant Man" and "Black River".
[4][5] In 2010, after Sherman was diagnosed with kidney cancer,[6] he began keeping a notebook which he turned into the memoir, Wait Time.
[3] In 2017, his memoir Wait Time was nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction.