Cheryl Dumesnil
Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969) is an American author, poet and editor. She is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. Her poems and essays have appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Calyx, and Rattle.
Cheryl Dumesnil
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- Cheryl Dumesnil
- Born
- 1969
- Education
- Syracuse University
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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Dumesnil was awarded the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first full-length book, In Praise of Falling. Dumesnil received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University and taught at Santa Clara University from 1994 to 2001. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and two sons.
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• Name — Cheryl Dumesnil • Born — 1969 • Education — Syracuse University • Genre — Poetry
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• "Bernal Heights", Verse Daily * • "In Praise of Falling", "Narrative"
Editor
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* * • Cheryl Dumesnil, Marika Lindholm, Katherine Shonk, Domenica Ruta, eds. (2020). We Got This! Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor. SheWrites.
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• (poetry) • (memoir) • Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2016. (poetry) • What Is Left to Say. Glass Lyre Press. 2023. (poetry)
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