Denise R. Ervin is a creative writer hewn from the streets, classrooms, and boardrooms of Detroit. She has spent more than two decades as a teaching artist, performing poetry around the country, and leading workshops for the likes of Literary Cleveland and the University of Michigan. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Vagabond City Lit, Harbinger Asylum, Third Wednesday Magazine, and others. She is a TWH (The Watering Hole) Graduate Fellow, an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, and a semifinalist for America’s Next Great Author. When she's not serving as a Program Manager for a local youth writing organization, Denise is working on several novel projects and her first full-length poetry manuscript, tentatively titled Palimpsest.