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About Cheri

Writer. Editor. (Sometimes) photographer. Creature of wanderlust.

After college in Los Angeles, Cheri started out as an arts and entertainment newspaper intern in her native San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past decade, she has worked with dozens of prominent editors and authors in nonfiction, travel, and K-12 education.

With her background in literary journalism, memoir, and screenwriting, she has written extensively about the Oakland warehouse rave scene in the 1990s and the current dance culture in San Francisco, as well as expatriate life and the challenges of teaching in Southeast Asia. Her research interests are eclectic, from techno and the brain to cultural paradox and juxtaposition in places like Thailand and Tokyo.

Currently, Cheri devotes her time to online travel, social media, and editing. She works with the team at Trazzler, a travel website, and in the marketing department at Mills College, an all-female liberal arts institution in the Bay Area. A fourteen-time award-winning book reviewer for the San Mateo Daily Journal, she also dabbles in Northern California travel, food writing, and cultural criticism.

Says essayist and poet Diana Hume George: "She writes about raves; about San Francisco; about the scene I know nothing of, but that governs more of the market-driven world I live in than I know . . . this is a writing talent of real size. She has far more material she can mine—other cultures she’s known, her keen sense of paradox about life."