Cherie Priest is a Florida native, born in 1975. In 2002 she graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing, and a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN. She lives, with her husband, in Seattle, Washington. Priest's published writing style thus far falls into the Southern Gothic genre as well as the Horror genre. She has also written several short stories, most of which can be categorized as Horror or Science fiction.