Cheryl J. Fish

Cheryl J. Fish's debut novel OFF THE YOGA MAT, the story of three characters coming of middle age has just been published by Livingston Press/UWA. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Cheap Pop, Spank the Carp, Liars League, Boog City and KGB Bar Lit. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Hanging Loose, Maintenant, Terrain, Mom Egg Review, New American Writing, Reed, Postcard poems, Santa Monica Review, ISLE and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World. Recent books of poetry are CRATER & TOWER, reflecting on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens Volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11/01, and THE SAUNA IS FULL OF MAIDS, poems and photographs celebrating Finnish sauna culture, travel, and friendships. Fish has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is a co-editor with Farah Griffin of A STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE: TWO CENTURIES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE. Fish has published on June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s proposed architectural re-design of Harlem tenements in the 1960s and on Sami film and art challenging mining and extraction in the Nordic countries. She is a creative writing editor of Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, and professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York. She is also docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com