Cheryl Dumesnil's memoir, Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood, will be released by Ig Publishing in 2013.

Winner of the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Dumesnil is the author of In Praise of Falling, editor of Hitched! Wedding Stories from San Francisco City Hall, and co-editor, with Kim Addonizio, of Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry East, Bloom, Nimrod, Indiana Review, Calyx, and Many Mountains Moving, among other literary magazines.

Her essays have appeared on literarymama.com, hipmama.com, mamazine.com and in Hip Mama Zine. She is a regular contributor to www.outandaround.com,  Huffington Post, and lesbian.com, where she writes from the crossroads of parenthood, suburbia, and lesbian life.

For over fifteen years she has taught creative writing at universities, conferences, K-12 schools, and in private settings. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and their two sons.

To book Cheryl Dumesnil for readings, interviews, speaking engagements, panel discussions, writing workshops, campus visits, or book group discussions, in person or on Skype, contact her here.