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Cheryl Pallant is a writer, poet, dancer, writing coach, workshop leader, and professor. She is the author of nine books: Contact Improvisation, on dance; poetry books, Morphs, Uncommon Grammar Cloth, Into Stillness, and Continental Drifts; the chapbooks, Poetry by Chocolate, The Phrase, Declaration of Independence, and Spontaneities. Ginseng Tango, a memoir on her life in S. Korea, is underway as is a book on creativity and mindfulness. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction 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 and Food for Thought. She has published over 200 reviews and interviews with dancers, writers, performance artists, and spiritual practitioners from around the globe and was dance critic for a local newspaper for twelve years.
Into Stillness was Finalist for the Virginia Books Award and the Southeastern Book Association. Her essay "Gifting Poetry" was chosen as Finalist for the Bechtel Prize. She has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Richmond Arts Council.
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She teaches creative writing, poetry, contact improvisation, Writing From the Body, and other workshops in creativity and innovation in the U.S. and abroad. She maintains the Richmond Contact Improvisation Jam and organizes the Fall East Coast Jam. She has practiced meditation, mostly Zen, for over thirty years. She is trained in Reiki, Process-Oriented Psychology, yoga, and Authentic Movement. Ongoing interests include tango, bicycling, hiking, postmodernism, somatics, sustainability, and delight. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Email: Cheryl@CherylPallant.com
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