Sapphire lives and works in New York City, and was born in Fort
Ord, California. Her first collection of prose and poetry is
American Dreams, published by Serpent's Tail/High Risk
Books. Her work has appeared in several anthologies, including
High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death & Subversion;
Critical Condition: Women on the Edge of Violence; and Women
on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction.
Sapphire graduated from City College in Harlem with a degree in
Dance and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the writing program
at Brooklyn College, where she was the 1994 recipient of the MacArthur
Foundation Scholarship in Poetry. She was the first place winner
in Downtown Magazine's Year of the Poet III Award for 1994.
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