Publications

NEW WRITINGS

The Weight of Paradise

What I Learned About a Pioneering Black Cookbook Author By Cooking Her Recipes  

SELECTED FICTION AND POETRY

Grimoire. Poetry Collection.  Autumn House, 2020.

Grimoire

Vixen

Vixen. Poetry collection.  Autumn House Press, 2017.

Mistress, Reclining. New Women’s Voices Award Series. Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2010. 40 pp poetry chapbook.

Mistress, Reclining by Cherene Sherrard (NWVS, #76)

Oracle at Venice Beach 1995

Apologia

Wild Yeast & Kiss and Tell

http://www.versedaily.org/2017/thedictatorswifemildredaristide.shtml

“Scales” in Sycorax’s Daughters. Anthology edited by Kinitra Brooks and Linda Addison.

“Blood-Red Velvet with Scream Please, Frost Me,” in Prairie Schooner. Summer 2013.

“The Holy Cathedral at Toledo as Praise Shack,” in Los Angeles Review. Vol. 12. Fall 2012. 122.

“One Moment She was There and the Next,” and “Lady with a Lamppost,” Tidal Basin Review. Summer 2012. 26.

“A Woman’s Ambition” in Feminist Studies. Vol. 33.3. (Fall 2007). 591-605.

SELECTED NONFICTION AND CRITICAL WORK

https://www.terrain.org/2019/nonfiction/saltworks/

Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography of Class and Color. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literature Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. Chicester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. (484pp)

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118494067.html

Comedy: American Style. Jessie Redmon Fauset. Edited and introduction, annotations, appendix by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

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“Revolutionary Potential: African Aesthetics in the Depression Era.” Solicited review essay of four books for American Literary History. American Literary History 2015; doi: 10.1093/alh/ajv005 (351-362)

http://alh.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2/351.short

Racial Recovery, Racial Death: An Introduction in Four Parts(co-authored with P. Gabrielle Foreman). Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 24.2 (2007): 157-170

Radical Tea: Racial Misrecognition and the Politics of Consumption in Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’s Four Girls At Cottage City. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 24.2 (2007): 225-247

SELECTED FICTION AND POETRY

Vixen. Poetry collection.  Autumn House Press, 2017.

http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/vixencherene-sherrard/

Mistress, Reclining. New Women’s Voices Award Series. Kentucky: Finishing Line Press, 2010. 40 pp poetry chapbook.

“Scales” in Towards a Black Women’s Horror Aesthetic: Creative Fictions. Anthology edited by Kinitra Brooks and Linda Addison.

“Blood-Red Velvet with Scream Please, Frost Me,” in Prairie Schooner. Summer 2013.

“The Holy Cathedral at Toledo as Praise Shack,” in Los Angeles Review. Vol. 12. Fall 2012. 122.

“One Moment She was There and the Next,” and “Lady with a Lamppost,” Tidal Basin Review. Summer 2012. 26.

“A Woman’s Ambition” in Feminist Studies. Vol. 33.3. (Fall 2007). 591-605.