Carla M Cherry

Carla M. Cherry is an English teacher and poet from New York City. She authored six full-length books of poetry: Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings, Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup, Honeysuckle Me, These Pearls Are Real, Stardust and Skin, and May He Bless My Name (iiPublishing), and three chapbooks: Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet (Grandma Moses Press), Sundays and Hot Buttered Rolls: A Granddaughter of Harlem Speaks (Finishing Line Press), and Warmed By The Sun, Chilled By The Breeze (iiPublishing).

A graduate of Spelman College, New York University, Lehman College of the City University of New York, Carla has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the City College of New York. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Anderbo, For Harriet, Dissident Voice, Random Sample Review, Eunoia Review, Bop Dead City, MemoryHouse Magazine, Down in the Dirt Magazine, In Between Hangovers, Picaroon Poetry, Firefly Magazine, Street Light Press, the Same, Ariel Chart, Wallpaper Magazine,Synaraesis, Interstice, Hollow, Terra Preta Review, Variety Pack, Anti-Heroin Chic,The Racket Journal, and Raising Mothers.