Cheri Pray Earl

Cheri Pray Earl graduated with her master's degree in creative writing from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1995 and has taught creative writing and literature courses for the BYU Honors Program and the English Department for more than 30 years. She was awarded BYU Honors Professor of the Year in 2005, which she brags about every chance she gets. Cheri has also worked as the faculty adviser and managing editor of Insight, the BYU Honors Magazine, is currently the faculty advisor for Inscape, the BYU English Department’s creative writing journal, as a writing coach for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Saints history project, and as a writer for the Church of Jesus Christ Saints history project. She’s written freelance articles and essays for the Marriott Alumni Magazine, BYU Honors Writer’s Handbook, and Segullah among others.

Cheri is also a novelist and wrote the middle-grade novel series, Just In Time, with Carol Lynch Williams. She published a non-fiction children’s book for American Girl in 2009, co-authored with the late Rick Walton. But in real life she writes young adult and adult novels. She won first place in the Utah Original Writing Competition for a YA novel, Flat Like Me, and took Honorable Mention for her YA novel, The Swan. Cheri also writes adult novels, including murder mysteries and magical realism. You can see Cheri's adult murder mysteries at https://www.patreon.com/home (free) and dustingforfingerprints.wordpress.com.