Cherilyn Parsons, Contributor

Cherilyn Parsons is a writer who lives in Berkeley, Calif. She has published feature stories and essays in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Online Journalism Review, New York Newsday, and literary anthologies. She currently works at the Center for Investigative Reporting and holds a Master’s degree in Professional Writing from USC. Two longtime vices, not terribly well controlled, are traveling, especially throughout Asia for months at a time, and consuming enormous quantities of books.