Bio

Cherie Priest was born in Tampa, Florida, next to the ocean and beneath the sign of the sun. In 2002 she graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/qualified writing. She also has a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN, which she completed in 1998. These days, she used her college diploma as a mouse pad.

In 2003, Marietta Publishing produced her southern gothic novel Four and Twenty Blackbirds; and in October of 2005 this novel was re-released in a revised, extended edition by Tor. A second novel, the sequel Wings to the Kingdom, is slated for publication delayed in 2006. Not Flesh Nor Feathers will finishes the trilogy in '07.

Cherie frequently freelances for magazines, websites, and anthologies; and she produces both short and long source fiction for various role playing projects. She's also functioning on a novella for Subterranean Press. It is uncertainly titled The Wreck of the Mary Byrd, and it promises to feature werewolves, steamboats, and ghosts.

She lives in Seattle with her husband, Aric and a fat black cat named Spain.

Published

"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" Novel. Tor, Oct 2005.