Herd, Niki2019-07-292019-07-292016-10-12https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4318Niki Herd grew up in Cleveland and earned degrees in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona and Antioch University. Nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, she is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been supported by the Astraea Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts, and has appeared in several journals and anthologies including Feminist Formations, North American Review, The Feminist Wire, Split This Rock, and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky. Her debut collection of poems, The Language of Shedding Skin, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Series. She has spent the last five years living in Washington, DC.en-USThe Language of Shedding SkinNorth American ReviewPoetry and Prose Reading SeriesNiki HerdThe Language of Shedding SkinNorth American ReviewPoetry and Prose Reading SeriesPoetryVideo