Vida Cross is a Cave Canem fellow who holds an MFA in writing and a MFA in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MA in English from Iowa State University, and a BA in both English-writing and history from Knox College. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies and journals including Milwaukee Noir (Akashic Press), The Creativity and Constraint Anthology, A Civil Rights Retrospective, Tabula Poetica, Transitions Magazine, the Cave Canem Anthology XII: Poems 2008-2009, The Literary Review, Reed Magazine, The Journal of Film and Video, and more. Her book of poetry, Bronzeville at Night:1949, debuted in 2017, and she was a 2018 Pushcart nominee for her poem “Extortion Social."
