Cheryl Boyce Taylor

CHERYL BOYCE‑TAYLOR is the author of six collections of poetry—Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body, Arrival, and We Are Not Wearing Helmets—and a memoir and poetic tribute to her son, renowned hip hop artist, Phife Dawg, titled Mama Phife Represents. Her work can also be found in numerous compilations and journals. A VONA fellow and a teaching artist, Boyce-Taylor is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, and she has led numerous poetry workshops for Cave Canem, the New York Public Library, Urban Word NYC, and Poets House, among others. A resident of Brooklyn, she is also known for her use of dialect and of the Zuihitsu form. Her works are archived at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.