Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke (May 16, 1947–) is a lesbian poet and essayist born and raised in Washington, DC. Her books include By My Precise Haircut (2016), After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), Experimental Love (1993), which was nominated for a 1994 Lambda Literary Award, Humid Pitch (1989), Living as a Lesbian (1986), and Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1983). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Black Scholar, The Kenyon Review, Belles Lettres, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color, and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. She has read her poetry and spoken at venues throughout the United States and served as member of the editorial collective for Conditions magazine. She received a B.A. from Howard University and an M.A., M.S.W., and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Clarke retired from Rutgers University in 2013. She resides in Hobart, New York where she owns Blenheim Hill Books and is the co-organizer of the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers.
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