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"Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant.
It is what I have done with
Where I have been
That should be of
Interest.'...
Georgia O’Keefe...
Cheryl is a devout Buddhist, 42 years of age, a full-time mom and is presently residing in Asia with her husband Keith and their 5 year-old daughter. The family will welcome their twin nieces into th
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Background
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Major influences Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism. Tina Turner's life story, Oprah Windfrey, Audre Lorde, Bell Hooks, Halle Berry, Jamaica Kincaid. Very interested in human relations and the effects history has on people and their interactions with the world. Studying the human figure through sculpture and figure drawing has been a major influence in my art. I write to heal and in doing so help others to find answers and to heal;I write to contribute to World Peace and to create harmony and dialogue amongst all cultures, ages, races, classes, genders, sexual differences; as well as to fight against all the 'isms' in which we find ourselves so deeply entrenched. I believe in the law of Karma. It definitely works. My belief is that one's environment is a reflection of one's life condition, and it is better to live one's life in truth and with integrity in order to create legacy and a positive life-force.
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Birth Place
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St Michael, Barbados West Indies
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In May 1999 Cheryl graduated from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. She has gained recognition in Who's Who in American Colleges, USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team 1996 and 1997, gained a Phi Beta Kappa award for her sculpture, a Mount Holyoke research grant to Senegal, West Africa, and a James Baldwin Playwriting prize for her play Shaduhs Uh Voodoo. The play has had two readings one 1996 and in 1998. It was produced at Mount Holyoke College as her final project for graduation March 1999.
She has done interviews in connection with her work on All Things Considered NPR, in the Boston Globe, the Axis Online Hampshire Gazette and WMUA UMASS Radio in Massachusetts, the Sunday Sun newspaper in Barbados, and made a guest appearance on the talk show T. P Parked on CBC (Caribbean Broadcasting Co-operation) in Barbados.
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WORK PUBLISHED
SHADUHS UH VOODOO by One Act Play Depot
December 2002 http://oneactplays.net/voodoo.html
THE CLEANSING by Publish America released May 2003
available amazon.com, borders.com, barnesandnoble.com, publishamerica.com
WORK IN PROGRESS
RETURN (part 2 THE CLEANSING) in outline form. Semi-autobiographical narratives based on the diasporic journey of the author, which results in her finding her true self.
WORK COMPLETED SEEKING PUBLISHER
BEING BLACK:BEING HUMAN a book of poems.
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http://oneactplays.net/voodoo.html
Article about cheryl (steeped in tragedy...)
chickenbone showcase
college article
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