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r. erica doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. Her work has been anthologized inBest American Poetry,Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles,Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing,Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam,Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First DecadeandVoices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing. Her poetry and fiction appear in various journals, includingPloughshares,Callaloo,Bloom,From the Fishouse,Blithe House QuarterlyandSinister Wisdom.Her articles and reviews have appeared inMs. Magazine,Black Issues Book Reviewand on theBest American PoetryandFuturepoemblogs. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Humanities Council of DC and Poets and Writers, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers.In addition, she has read her work at the Kennedy Center, the National Black Arts Festival, Joe's Pub, the Nuyorican, the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica, WI and various colleges and universities. Erica received her MFA in Poetry from The New School, and lives in New York City, where she is an administrator in the NYC public schools and facilitates Tongues Afire: A Free Creative Writing Workshop for queer women and trans and gender nonconforming people of color.