Sheryl St. Germain (born 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American poet, essayist, and professor.
Her father was Jules St. Francois St. Germain and her mother Myrl Marie Frank.
Currently, she directs the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
St. German's father, brother, and son died of substance abuse, and St. Germain has written both essays and poems that address substance abuse.
She co-founded Words Without Walls, Words, a creative partnership between the Chatham MFA Creative Writing Program, Allegheny County Jail (ACJ), and Sojourner House, a residential drug and alcohol treatment facility for mothers and their children.