Cheryl Whitehead

Cheryl Whitehead is a teacher, musician, and poet from Snow Camp, North Carolina. Her poems have appeared in Mezzo Cammin, The Hopkins Review, Crab Orchard Review and other journals. She has been a finalist for the New Letters and Morton Marr Poetry Prizes and the Unicorn Press First Book Award. She won an emerging artist grant from the Astraea Foundation and received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Quest Writers’ Conference and the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She currently teaches English at the Middle College at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.