Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D. is a professor of Writing and Literature, a poet, fiction writer and scholar/teacher of environmental justice in literature, film, visual arts, and architecture. She can be contacted about giving a lecture, reading, or presentation at Tribecagal312@gmail.com. Follow Cheryl on FACEBOOK: CHERYL J. FISH TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM: @CHERYLJOYFISH
Short bio THE SAUNA IS FULL OF MAIDS, poetry and photography book about Finnish Sauna culture, friendship, and Kalevala and Sami myth, forthcoming from Shanti Arts Press. New flash fiction published in SPANK THE CARP: DEBUT NOVEL OFF THE YOGA MAT to be published by Livingston Press in 2022. New Poetry Book CRATER & TOWER Published May, 2020 Teaching Experience
Select Lectures, Readings, Honors Guest blog post on ARTIVISM and Ecological RESPONSE to extractivism: http://enviro-history.com/artivism BMCC News Sabbatical Accomplishments (Oct. 2019) https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/professors-deepen-understanding-and-pedagogy-on-sabbatical/ Flash fiction, "Grade Book" published in CheapPopLit: http://www.cheappoplit.com/home/2018/7/26/grade-book-cheryl-j-fish Guest Lecturer, Environmental Humanities Series, University of Helsinki, Oct. 16, 2018. Writer-in Residence, Art Centre Kulttuurikauppila, Ii, Finland, Sept. 2018. Essay,“Liselotte Wajstedt’s Kiruna: Space Road (Kiruna— Rymdvägen): Experimental Ecocinema as Elegiac Memoir in ‘Extractivist’ Sápmi," in Journal of Scandinavia Cinema, Vol. 8 No. 2, June 2018, p 111-122. Short story, "Strike-Slip Fault," published in Iron Horse Literary Review, Issue 19.4, 2017. 2018: Poems in Hanging Loose and New American Writing. SEED BOX grant to lecture and present on Sami film at Linköping University, Sweden, April, 2017. Chancellor's Fellowship, City University of New York, 2016-17. My story, "Never Buy Dope in Washington Square" from the dot-matrix printed experimental journal of the 1980s Between C&D, featured in window exhibit at 80 WSE Gallery, NYU, Dec 4, 2014-Feb. 14, 2015. Short story "Hovering" chosen for Liars' League NYC reading at KGB Bar. Theme: Cash and Credit Finalist in L Magazine's search for pocket fiction for excerpt from novel manuscript OFF THE YOGA MAT Essay, "The Lost One": An Exhibit and film by Sami filmmaker Liselotte Wadstedt,published by Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, exhibit on Sami artists. Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change at University of Alabama, on June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller's Harlem Redesign Project Lectured on environmental justice activism among young adults at the Green Feminism Conference at SUNY New Paltz Residencies: Wellspring House, Ragdale, Renaissance House. Finalist, Fiction, Artsmith residency, Orcas Island Washington Writer-in-Residence, Springcreek Project, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Winner, Florence Howe Award for Best Feminist Essay from the Women's Caucus of the Modern LanguageAssociation Lecture and poetry reading, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
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