Cheryl a. head

Cheryl Head spent twenty years in public television and radio before turning to fiction writing. Her first book, Long Way Home: A World War II Novel, is a story of black soldiers’ experience in America’s segregated army. It was a 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in the African American Literature, and Historical Fiction categories.

Head writes the Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries, published by Bywater Books. The first in the series, Bury Me When I’m Dead was a 2017 Lambda Literary Awards finalist. The other books in the series are: Ann Bannon Popular Choice finalist, Wake Me When It’s Over (2018); Catch Me When I’m Falling (2019); and  Judge Me When I’m Wrong (2019).

She was named to the 2019 Hall of Fame of the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival. She resides in an 1870 rowhouse on a diverse street in Washington, DC’s Capitol Hill.

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