author of Between Chance and Mercy
Ephemera Prize Judge
October 25, 2:10 p.m.
James E. Cherry, who hails from Jackson, Tennessee, returns with his third collection of poetry, Between Chance and Mercy. He founded the West Tennessee Griot writer’s collective and considers himself a literary activist. He has previously published the poetry collections Loose Change and Honoring the Ancestors, as well as the novels The Edge of the Wind and Shadow of Light and the story collection Still a Man.
