Cheryl B Thompson graduated with a BSN, then within two years completed a Masters in Nursing. She practiced critical care and transport nursing for over 10 years before starting on her PhD. Upon graduation she began her nearly 30 year career of teaching healthcare informatics, research, community health, and leadership to both undergraduate and graduate students.
In 2012 she participated in a 10 week program, “Seven Doctors Project”. The project was directed by Steve Langan and focused on helping health care professionals learn to write fiction and poetry as a stress reduction strategy. During the 10 weeks she drafted poetry and short stories. This inspired her to turn her efforts towards publication.
Her first efforts at poetry were published in “Poetic Reflections on Polygamy”. Her poems reflect her understanding of the FLDS polygamist life style as lived in southern Utah in the later part of the 20th 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 in 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. Thompson’s experiences after the first year are further chronicled in her blog “Cisgender Voices.”
Most of her professional writing support comes from Sisters in Crime: a “writing organization focused on increasing equity and inclusion for women crime writers within the publishing industry”. In addition to the worldwide organization she is a member of the Atlanta Chapter which provides local support and in person opportunities. The Guppies Online Chapter focuses on online education, offering a broad array of short webinars and longer courses.
When not writing, Thompson spends her time reading, gardening, and playing World of Warcraft. She and her wife are parents to two adult children and grandparents to two young adult boys. They make their home in north-east, Georgia.
