Niki Herd

Niki Herd is the author of "The Language of Shedding Skin" and co-editor with Meg Day of "Laura Hershey: On the Life & Work of an American Master," which features the poetry of and critical essays about disability activist Laura Hershey. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Herd’s poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poets (Poem-a-Day), Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and "The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic," among other journals and anthologies. Her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Newberry Library, and Cave Canem. She lives in Houston where she is an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.