Cheryl Pallant is a writer, poet, dancer, writing
coach, and university instructor. She is the
author of five books: Contact Improvisation, a
book on dance; three poetry books, Morphs,
Uncommon Grammar Cloth, and Into Stillness;
and four chapbooks, Poetry by Chocolate, The
Phrase, Declaration of Independence, and
Spontaneities. A new nonfiction book, a memoir
on her life in S. Korea, 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 An Introduction
to the Prose Poem, Food for Thought and
Inspired by Drink. She has published over 200
reviews and interviews with dancers,
performance artists, and writers from around
the globe and was dance 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 universities 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, tango, bicycling, and hiking. She lives in
Richmond, Virginia and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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, a
book on dance; three poetry books, Morphs,
Uncommon Grammar Cloth, and Into Stillness;
and four chapbooks, Poetry by Chocolate, The
Phrase, Declaration of Independence, and
Spontaneities. A new nonfiction book, a memoir
on her life in S. Korea, 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 An Introduction
to the Prose Poem, Food for Thought and
Inspired by Drink. She has published over 200
reviews and interviews with dancers,
performance artists, and writers from around
the globe and was dance 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 universities 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, tango, bicycling, and hiking. She lives in
Richmond, Virginia and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Cheryl is available for workshops, readings,
talks, and as a writing coach.
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