Cheryl Dumesnil
{{short description|American author, poet and editor|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Cheryl Dumesnil (born 1969) is an American author, poet and editor. She is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post.[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cheryl-dumesnil/ Huffington Post profile] Her poems and essays have appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Calyx, and Rattle.[http://www.nevadacountyartscouncil.org/womenswriting/salonbio-CDumesnil.html Nevada County Arts Council] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704073830/http://www.nevadacountyartscouncil.org/womenswriting/salonbio-CDumesnil.html |date=July 4, 2008 }}
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_12937553|last=De Jesus|first=Janice|title=The power of language, the vulnerability of the human spirit| newspaper=San Jose Mercury News|date=2009-07-29}} She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and two sons.
Selected publications
=Sample works=
- [http://www.versedaily.org/2009/bernalheights.shtml "Bernal Heights", Verse Daily]
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/09/spring/dumesnil.html| title=Don't Ask Me| journal=Cortland Review| date=Spring 2009}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130620121032/http://www.cheryldumesnil.com/Poems.html "In Praise of Falling", "Narrative"]
=Books=
- {{cite book| title=In Praise of Falling| publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2009| isbn=978-0-8229-6041-6 }} (poetry)
- {{cite book| title=Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood|publisher=Ig Publishing|year=2013 }} (memoir)
- Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2016. (poetry)
- What Is Left to Say. Glass Lyre Press. 2023. (poetry)
=Editor=
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YF5uKb-P5UkC&q=Cheryl+Dumesnil| title=Hitched!: wedding stories from San Francisco City Hall|editor=Cheryl Dumesnil| publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press| year=2005| isbn=978-1-56025-764-6 }}
- {{cite book |title=Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos |editor=Kim Addonizio |editor2=Cheryl Dumesnil |publisher=Diane Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-7567-9159-9}}
- Cheryl Dumesnil, Marika Lindholm, Katherine Shonk, Domenica Ruta, eds. (2020). [https://www.wegotthisbook.com We Got This! Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor]. SheWrites.
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Category:American lesbian writers
Category:Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people
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