Cheryl Smart is a retired fitness instructor, an essayist, and a final year MFA candidate at the University of Memphis, where she is recipient of the 2015 Creative Writing Award in Nonfiction, among others. She is former Managing Editor of The Pinch. Her most recent work can be found in River Teeth's 'Beautiful Things' column, Gulf Coast, The Collagist, and others. Cheryl lives just on the line between Memphis and Germantown near her children and grandchildren, but she tells people she lives in Memphis. See cherylsmartwriter.com to read other works.