Cherie Priest
1975
Cherie Priest is an American author, an award-winning novelist and a blogger. She has authored many novels and short stories, but is well known for her most-awarded novel, Boneshaker. Cherie Priest was born in Tampa, Florida in 1975. Being born to an Army father, Priest lived her teenage years in several places as Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky and Texas. Until her college, she moved around a lot. Cherie Priest graduated from Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, Tennessee with a B.A.in 1998. It was then when she decided to pursue her master’s degree in writing. In 2001, she completed her M.A. in Professional writing from the famous University of Tennessee. She still lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with her husband, a black cat and a shaggy dog; and that’s where she wrote her first two books. Cherie Priest claims to follow no religion and keeps no bonds with the church, although she was precariously raised a Seventh-day Adventist.