Niki Herd

Niki Herd is the author of the poetry collections The Stuff of Hollywood and The Language of Shedding Skin, as well as the chapbook _____ , don’t you weep. She coedited with Meg Day Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master. Herd’s poetry, essays, and criticism appear in the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Poetry Daily, New England Review, Salon, and This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by MacDowell, Ucross, Bread Loaf, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. Herd has taught at the University of Houston and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Lancaster, PA where she teaches at Franklin & Marshall College.