Carla M. Cherry is an English teacher and poet from New York City. A graduate of Spelman College, New York University, and Lehman College of the City University of New York, she holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. She has been published in various publications, including Anderbo, Dissident Voice, Random Sample Review, Eunoia Review, Bop Dead City, MemoryHouse Magazine, Down in the Dirt Magazine, In Between Hangovers, Anti-Heroin Chic, Porcupine, and Raising Mothers. Carla has published six books of poetry through iiPublishing: 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, and three chapbooks, Sundays and Hot Buttered Rolls: A Granddaughter of Harlem Speaks (Finishing Line Press), Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet (Grandma Moses Press), and Warmed By The Sun, Chilled By The Breeze (iiPublishing).