Born and raised in Liberia, West Africa, Cheryl Collins Isaac spent her childhood surviving the First Liberian Civil War. A former business columnist for Forbes Woman, her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in Chicago Quarterly Review, Ocean State Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Prime Number Magazine, South Writ Large, and others.
While at MacDowell, she worked on completing a memoir-in-progress about dealing with post-trauma after her experiences during the Liberian Civil War of 1990. In her studio, she used the solitude and space to rearrange archived letters she'd written as a child during war, and to weave these letters into the full narrative.
