Sherida Yoder

Raised in Paterson, New Jersey, Sherida Yoder teaches writing, literature, and creative writing at Felician University in Lodi, NJ. She also taught at Rutgers, where she earned a B.A. in Zoology and her master's degree and Ph.D. in English. She studied developmental biology at Temple University and at the Marine Biology Labs at Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute in Mass. Her poetry combines the detail of a naturalist with the passion and perception of a poet. In 2018, she won a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Prism Paterson, to create a minor and certificate program for undergraduate study at Felician University of the art, literature, and music of Paterson, NJ. Her Facebook page related to this project is called Literary Paterson, NJ.