James E Cherry's poetry is published or forthcoming from Fare Forward, Southern Indiana Review, Birmingham Poetry Review and Black Fire This Time, an anthology from Willow Books. He is the author of three collections of poetry, two novels and a collection of short fiction. His novel, Edge of the Wind, was published (second edition) in December 2022 from Stephen F Austin University Press and was a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist for Fiction (2016). Cherry has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Lillian Smith Book Award and a Next Generation Indie Book Award for Fiction. He has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is president of The Griot Collective of West Tennessee, a poetry workshop.