Cherry Pickman is the author of “Theory of Tides,” winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and PEN, among others. A selection of Pickman’s poems was included in the anthology “Eight Miami Poets.” Her full-length collection “Islanders” was a semifinalist for the Alice James Award. Shortlisted for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Pickman was a finalist for the Snowbound Chapbook Award from Tupelo Press and the Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. In 2017 she received a fellowship from Artists in Residence in the Everglades. Pickman is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program. She lives and works in Miami.
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