Individual Consultation with Cheryl J. Fish

About Cheryl J. Fish

Cheryl J. Fish, who has been a Fulbright professor in Finland, published her debut novel, Off the Yoga Mat, in 2022. She is the author of poetry collections including The Sauna is Full of Maids, poems and photographs celebrating Finnish sauna culture, the natural world, and friendships; and Crater & Tower, poems reflecting on trauma and ecology after the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption and the terrorist attack of 9/11. She is coeditor with Farah Griffin of A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing. Fish’s poems have appeared in Hanging Loose, Maintenant, Terrain, Mom Egg Review, New American Writing, Reed, Postcard poems, Volt, Santa Monica Review, About Place Journal, ISLE, and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World. Her short fiction has appeared in Cheap Pop, Iron Horse Literary Review, Liars League, Gargoyle, Mom Egg Review, Spank the Carp, and New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confront the Holocaust. She recently published an interview with novelist Bonnie Jo Campbell in BOMB magazine online. She is a creative writing editor at the Turkish journal Ecocene and professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York. She has taught at University of Helsinki, Hobart Festival of Women Writers and Art in the Basin.