Cheryl A. Rice is a Long Islander by birth, although she's made New York's Hudson Valley her home for twenty-five years. She is a member of Voices of the Valley, a poetry performance troupe, the Woodstock Poetry Society, the Academy of American Poets, and the International Women's Writing Guild. She was recently been in the Poets & Writers index and has been featured at or organized open poetry mics from Albany to Middletown.
She is the founder and host of the 'Sylvia Plath Bake-Off', held each year in Kingston, NY, perhaps the world's only combination open mic/baked goods competition. She was one of the many local poets featured at the first annual Woodstock Poetry Festival in August of 2001, and hosted an open mic during the 2002 edition.
She holds a B.S. in Secondary Education/English from the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, and completed a year of graduate work at the University at Albany.
Cheryl A. Rice's work, both poetry and prose, has appeared in AltDot Reader, ART TIMES, Bitterroot, Chronogram, The Country and Abroad, The Florida Review, Gathering of the Tribes (pending), Home Planet News, Mangrove, Multitudes, Poetry Motel, Poets Gallery Press, Satori, S.M.T., The Temple/El Templo, Ulster Magazine, and The Woodstock Times, and online at albanypoets.com, halfmoonreview.com , poetrypoetry.com., and thehiddencity.com.