Cheryl J. Fish published her debut novel Off the Yoga Mat, in 2022, and in 2021, her collection of poems, The Sauna is Full of Maids, celebrating Finnish sauna culture, friendship, and travel, came out from Shanti Arts. Fish’s poems have appeared in Hanging Loose, Maintenant, Terrain, Mom Egg Review, New American Writing, Reed, Postcard poems, Volt, Santa Monica Review, About Place Journal, ISLE, and Poetics for the More-than- Human-World. Fish’s short fiction has appeared in Cheap Pop, Iron Horse, Liars League, Spank the Carp, Boog City, Gargoyle, Apricity, and KGB BarLit. She was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize and is a creative writing editor at the journal Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She co-curates a reading series, VillageStorySalon, at The New York Public Library and teaches workshops online and in person for Art in
the Basin, The Queens Public Library, The San Miguel Writers Conference, and elsewhere. Her website is cheryljfish.com.