About

Cheryl B Thompson began to write in the 1980s while practicing as a critical care nurse. She furthered her professional writing over a 30 year career teaching healthcare informatics, research, community health and leadership to undergraduate and graduate students

In 2012 she participated in a 10 week program, “The Seven Doctors Project”, directed at helping health care professionals learn to write fiction and poetry as a stress reduction strategy. Her first efforts at poetry were published in “Poetic Reflections on Polygamy”¹. Her poems reflect her understanding of the FLDS² polygamist life style as lived in southern Utah in the later part of the 20^th century. This familiarity was developed from having become the guardian of a 16 year old woman who had fled an arranged polygamist marriage.

Her latest book, “Inside my Husband’s Closet”, was released April 16, 2024. The book reflects her journey during the first year after her husband came out as a cross dresser before adopting the gender identity of trans. These personal perspectives were enriched by her time spent working with the LGBTQ community while serving as chief student affairs officer in an academic health sciences center.

Thompson’s experiences after her first year as a cisgender wife to a trans woman are chronicled in the blog “Cisgender Voices³.”

When not writing Thompson spends her time reading, gardening, and practicing karate. She and her wife are parents to two adult children and grandparents to two teenage boys. They make their home in north-east, Georgia.

¹https://www.amazon.com/Transitions-Collection-Poetry-About-Polygamy-ebook/dp/B0C17T28RM

²FLDS: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints

³Cisgender Voices, https://cherylbthompson.wordpress.com/cisgender-voices/