Cherene Sherrard | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Cherene Sherrard

Cherene Sherrard was born in Los Angeles.  A Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, she is the author of the forthcoming Grimoire, to be published by Autumn House Press in September, 2020; Vixen (Autumn House Press); a chapbook entitled Mistress Reclining, winner of New Women’s Voices Award; and a biography of Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review, Crab Orchard Review, Prairie Schooner, Tidal Basin Review, and Obsidian III. She is the recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in poetry, a National Endowment for the Humanities Award and Resident fellowship from the Ragdale foundation.  She currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is a professor in the English department at UW-Madison. 

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