Cheryl J. Fish

Cheryl J. Fish is a poet, fiction writer, and environmental justice scholar who grew up in Flushing, New York. She teaches at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. In fall 2018 she was a writer-in-residence at KulttuuriKauppila in Ii, Finland, where she also gave an American literature evening at the Ii library. Her poetry collections include Crater & Tower, on trauma and ecology after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption and 9/11, and The Sauna is Full of Maids. Her debut novel, Off the Yoga Mat, was published in 2022.