Cheryl J. Fish's debut novel OFF THE YOGA MAT, the story of three characters coming of middle age, was published by Livingston Press/UWA in Oct. 2022. 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, About Place Journal, 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, visiting professor at Mount Holyoke College, and has spent time in residencies at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ragdale, and Gullkistan. She is professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com