Cheryl Skory Suma

Cheryl has a Masters of Health Science in Speech-Language Pathology and a B.Sc. in Honors Psychology. Over her twenty-five year career as a child-teen SLP therapist and then as a CEO/entrepreneur, Cheryl always enjoyed bringing creativity and story-telling into her daily work and interactions.

After selling the Canadian health care company she founded, Cheryl was able to return full-time to her first love, writing. Cheryl launched her writing career with a YA fantasy novel, Habitan, which made the Longlist of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. Her second novel, gods Playground, advanced to the Semifinals of the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition.

While she enjoys the challenge of crafting a full novel, she also creates poetry, short fiction, flash and creative nonfiction pieces. She began submitting her work to journals, magazines and competitions in 2018. Her poetry has placed in competitions and appeared in both online and print publications in the US and UK. Her short stories, flash and creative nonfiction work have placed in contests hosted by journals in Canada, the US, and UK, with publication of her entries online and in print.

She is currently working on sequels to both her novels, as well as a short story collection (and more flash!). She also presents as a guest author/speaker on a variety of topics to schools and book clubs. In her spare time, Cheryl is a passionate chef who enjoys experimenting and discovering new recipes, as well as a horrible gardener (although she still loves cooking with fresh herbs from her struggling veggie garden each summer).

*To learn more about Cheryl, check out her Blog on her Reflections Page.