Cheryl Caesar lived in Paris, Tuscany and Sligo for 25 years; she earned her doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne and taught literature and phonetics. She teaches writing at Michigan State University. She gives readings and publishes poems in the U.S., Germany, India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Zimbabwe. She has won third prize in the Singapore Poetry Contest for her poem on global warming, and the “no-age” scholarship to the Social Justice workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, from Indolent Books. Her chapbook Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era is available from Amazon.