Cheryl Dumesnil

Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969) is an American author, poet and editor. She is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.[1] Her poems and essays have appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Calyx, and Literary Mama.[2] She frequently writes about suburbia, parenthood, and lesbian issues.

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.[3] She lives in Walnut Creek, California with her wife and two sons.

Sample Works
  • "Bernal Heights", Verse Daily
  • "Don't Ask Me". Cortland Review. Spring 2009.
  • "In Praise of Falling", "Narrative"

Books
  • Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood. Ig Publishing. 2013. (memoir)
  • In Praise of Falling. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8229-6041-6. (poetry)
  • Toward desire. Syracuse University. 1996. (poetry)

Anthologies
  • Gail Rudd Entrekin, ed. (2007). Yuba Flows. Hip Pocket Press. ISBN 978-0-917658-35-8.

Editor
  • Cheryl Dumesnil, ed. (2005). Hitched!: wedding stories from San Francisco City Hall. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-764-6.
  • Kim Addonizio; Cheryl Dumesnil, eds. (2002). Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. Diane Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7567-9159-9.
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References
  1. Huffington Post profile
  2. Nevada County Arts Council Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. De Jesus, Janice (2009-07-29). "The power of language, the vulnerability of the human spirit". San Jose Mercury News.


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