Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and visual artist born in Trinidad and raised in Queens, New York. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, which include Mama Phife Represents, a verse memoir about the life of her son, and Hip-Hop Legend, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Her most recent collection, The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022), recently won the 2024 Firecracker Award for poetry. Her work is archived at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MSW.
