A Trinidadian-American poet and teaching artist born in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, and based in Brooklyn, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor earned an MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. Arrival (TriQuarterly Books, 2017) was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Mama Phife Represents (Haymarket Books, 2021), a verse memoir for her son Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor of A Tribe Called Quest, won the 2022 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. She founded the Calypso Muse reading series and received the 2015 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.
