Cecily Schuler

Cecily Schuler is a Miami-raised, Brooklyn-based genderqueer writer and performer. Their work is featured in Jai-Alai, Baphash, the Offing, great weather for MEDIA, Duende and elsewhere. They are an assistant editor at Drunken Boat and run Union Square Slam, a weekly poetry open mic and slam in the heart of New York City every Tuesday. While receiving an MFA in writing and social activism at Pratt Institute, and attending residencies at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Home School: Miami and the Vermont Studio Center, they’ve been working on a full-length experimental poetic memoir. Their first chapbook, 296, is available on Next Left Press. This past spring, they received a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship for study in Joe Pan’s Revisit & Revise manuscript workshop. Source