R. Erica Doyle

Biography

R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn after the riots of ’68. Her work has appeared in Best American PoetryCallalooPloughsharesBest Black Women’s EroticaBum Rush the PageMs. Magazine, and is forthcoming in BloomOur Caribbean: Writing by LGBT Writers of the Antilles, andQuotes Community: Notes for Black Poets. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation, the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers.

First posted: April 15, 2007

Last modified: April 18, 2016