Cheryl Wilder is the author of Anything That Happens (Press 53, 2021), a poetry collection that examines how to reconcile a past grave mistake and a future that stretches into one long second chance. Her chapbook What Binds Us (Finishing Line Press, 2017), explores the frailty and necessity of human connection. Her work appears in Barely South Review, Prime Number Magazine, Verse Daily, Cream City Review, and Architects + Artisans, among other publications. In 2018, she served as writer-in-residence at SistaWRITE; and in 2019, she was granted residency at Sundress Academfy for the Arts. A founder and editor of Waterwheel Review, she earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Cheryl lives near the Haw River in North Carolina, where she chairs the Burlington Writers Club student contest and owns a small web development company. She’s a mother of three boys and the wife of one grateful man.