Carla M. Cherry is a veteran English teacher and poet whose work has appeared in various publications, including Random Sample Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, 433, La Libreta, ISLE, and Raising Mothers. She has authored six books of poetry, 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 (iiPublishing), and three chapbooks Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet (Grandma Moses Press), Sundays and Hot Buttered Rolls: A Granddaughter of Harlem Speaks (Finishing Line Press), and Warmed By The Sun, Chilled By The Breeze (iiPublishing). She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the City College of New York. She has been most influenced by African-American poets such as Nikki Giovanni, Maya Angelou, and Sonia Sanchez. She aspires to write creative nonfiction.  

A nominee for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.