Cai Sherley (he/him) is a Black trans poet and educator with roots in Boston, MA. Cai is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, 2021 Winter Fellow with The Watering Hole, and 2023 Brooklyn Poets Summer Fellow. His work is published in Best New Poets 2022, Crazyhorse, and Peach Mag among others, as well as My Loves: A Digital Anthology of Queer Love Poems from Ghost City Press. He is passionate about writing Black trans-masculine lives past & present and lives in Chicago, where he serves as a Poet in Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center.
