Monique Ferrell is a Professor of English in New York City. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY in the neighborhood affectionately known as Bed-Stuy. A portion of her writing focuses on that neighborhood, specifically the social and cultural challenges that impact issues of race, community, and gender. Outside of her academic pursuits, she is a widely published and anthologized poet and fiction writer. She frequently reads and lectures at colleges and universities across the country and has appeared as a featured guest at several creative writing events. She is the author of a prose collection, Black Body Parts (Cross +Roads Press, 2001) and a poetry collection, UNSTEADY (NYQ Books, 2011). She is currently at work on completing her short-fiction collection, Impetus. Her book of feminist criticism, Her Own Worst Enemy: The Eternal Internal Gender Wars of Our Sisters, is due to be released in the fall of 2012.
