Cai Sherley

Cai Sherley (he/him) is a poet-educator with roots in Boston, MA. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, you can find his work in Best New Poets 2022, swamp pink, Peach Mag, and My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems from Ghost City Press. He is passionate about writing Black trans-masculine lives past & present and has found homes at The Watering Hole, Brooklyn Poets, Tin House, and LAMBDA. As an educator, Cai has worked at the K-12 and college levels, including with the children of incarcerated adults and queer youth. He has developed and facilitated poetry workshops with schools & organizations across the East Coast and provides professional development for educators looking to use poetry in science and history curricula. Cai holds an MFA from New York University, is a member of the Crossroads Writers Collective, and is a stepdad to two sphynxes.