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. Her writing focuses on books, travel, journalism and human rights; she is finishing a novel set partly in Tibet. As a professional fundraising consultant she has raised millions of philanthropic dollars for various nonprofit journalism ventures, most notably the Center for Investigative Reporting, which she was instrumental in growing from a staff of 6 people to 70. Currently she is developing a major literary fair for the greater San Francisco region, the Bay Area Book Festival, to debut in 2014.