Cheryl Pallant is a writer, poet, dancer, writing
coach, and university instructor. She is the
author of five books: Contact Improvisation, her
book on dance from McFarland and Company;
two poetry books from Station Hill Press,
Uncommon Grammar Cloth and Into Stillness;
and two chapbooks, The Phrase from The
Feral Press and Spontaneities from Belladonna
Press. A new nonfiction book, on embodied
writing, is currently underway. Poetry and fiction
have appeared in numerous print and online
magazines such as Fence, HOW2, Tarpaulin
Sky, and Oxford Magazine, and in several
anthologies like Food for Thought by William
Morrow and Company and An Introduction to
the Prose Poem by Firewheel Editions. She has
published over 200 reviews and interviews with
dancers, performance artists, and writers from
around the globe and was a critic for a local
newspaper for twelve years.
Into Stillness was a finalist for the Virginia
Books Award and the Southeastern Book
Association. Her essay "Gifting Poetry" was
chosen as a finalist for the Bechtel Prize. She
has received several grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the
Richmond Arts Council.
She teaches creative writing, poetry, contact
improvisation, and a blend of writing and
movement at University of Richmond, Virginia
Commonwealth University, and in workshops in
the U.S. and abroad. She has been writing and
publishing since a teenager and performing
Contact Improvisation since college when Steve
Paxton visited her college as a guest artist. She
maintains the Richmond Contact Improvisation
Jam and organizes the Fall East Coast Jam and
attends as many other jams as time permits. If
not writing or dancing, she is pursuing other
practices and interests such as Zen meditation,
yoga, bicycling, and hiking. She lives in
Richmond, Virginia.
Cheryl is available for workshops, readings,
talks, and as a writing coach.
coach, and university instructor. She is the
author of five books: Contact Improvisation, her
book on dance from McFarland and Company;
two poetry books from Station Hill Press,
Uncommon Grammar Cloth and Into Stillness;
and two chapbooks, The Phrase from The
Feral Press and Spontaneities from Belladonna
Press. A new nonfiction book, on embodied
writing, is currently underway. Poetry and fiction
have appeared in numerous print and online
magazines such as Fence, HOW2, Tarpaulin
Sky, and Oxford Magazine, and in several
anthologies like Food for Thought by William
Morrow and Company and An Introduction to
the Prose Poem by Firewheel Editions. She has
published over 200 reviews and interviews with
dancers, performance artists, and writers from
around the globe and was a critic for a local
newspaper for twelve years.
Into Stillness was a finalist for the Virginia
Books Award and the Southeastern Book
Association. Her essay "Gifting Poetry" was
chosen as a finalist for the Bechtel Prize. She
has received several grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the
Richmond Arts Council.
She teaches creative writing, poetry, contact
improvisation, and a blend of writing and
movement at University of Richmond, Virginia
Commonwealth University, and in workshops in
the U.S. and abroad. She has been writing and
publishing since a teenager and performing
Contact Improvisation since college when Steve
Paxton visited her college as a guest artist. She
maintains the Richmond Contact Improvisation
Jam and organizes the Fall East Coast Jam and
attends as many other jams as time permits. If
not writing or dancing, she is pursuing other
practices and interests such as Zen meditation,
yoga, bicycling, and hiking. She lives in
Richmond, Virginia.
Cheryl is available for workshops, readings,
talks, and as a writing coach.
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