Wayne Schlepp wrote poetry as an undergraduate and continues to the present day. His writing was usually in spare time left from teaching in the East Asian departments of Wisconsin and Toronto Universities. His personal verse makes up most of his output though there is considerable translation from Chinese which appears in anthologies such as Sunflower Splendor and in chapbooks. The Darker Edges of the Sky is his first collection of poetry. He and his wife live in Cobourg, Ontario.