Cherryl Floyd-Miller has published two volumes of poems, Utterance: A Museology of Kin (2003) and Chops (Nexus Press, 2004). She has received grants and writing fellowships from Idyllwild Summer in Poetry, Poets & Writers, Inc., the Fulton County Arts Council, Caldera, Cave Canem, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Indiana Arts Commission. Her work has appeared in Poetry magazine, Crab Orchard Review, Terminus, North Carolina Literary Review, Copper Nickel, storySouth and Essence magazine. Also a quilt artist, she often incorporates her poetry into her quilts. Visit Cherryl Floyd-Miller's blog. (Photo © 2006 Teri Elam-Blanchard)

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