Cherie Priest was born in Tampa FL. She attended Southern Adventist University in Tennessee and got her master’s in rhetoric (composition/critical theory) at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Her first novel Four & Twenty Blackbirds appeared in 2003 from a small press, and was later revised and expanded for publication by Tor in 2005. The novel began the Eden Moore series of Southern Gothics, which continued with Wings to