Cherryl Floyd-Miller

North Carolina native Cherryl Floyd-Miller is the author of three single-author poetry volumes: Utterance: A Museology of Kin (Sadorian Publications, 2003), Chops (Nexus Press, 2004), and Exquisite Heats (Salt Publishing, 2008). Utterance was a semi-finalist for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Prize. CHOPS, won a 2005 AIGA Gold SEED Award and is housed in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. She has held fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, Caldera, Idyllwild Summer in Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, the Indiana Arts Commission and the Fulton County Arts Council. Her poems have appeared in Poetry magazine, Essence magazine, Crab Orchard Review, poemeleon, miPoesias, Copper Nickel, Terminus, Poetry Southeast, North Carolina Literary Review, and Warpland. She is also published in numerous anthologies. Starting June 2013, Cherryl began publishing under her married name, Cherryl T. Cooley.