Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of five previous collections of poetry--We Are Not Wearing Helmets, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body, and Arrival--and a memoir and poetic tribute to her son, Mama Phife Represents. A VONA fellow and a teaching artist, Boyce-Taylor is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, and she has led numerous poetry workshops for Cave Canem, the New York Public Library, Urban Word NYC, and Poets House, among others. She lives in Brooklyn.