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 Pub Co. ISBN 978-0-7567-9159-9.

References

1. Huffington Post profile
2. Nevada County Arts Council
3. De Jesus, Janice (2009-07-29). "The power of language, the vulnerability of the human spirit". San Jose Mercury News.