Cherie Priest (born July 30, 1975) is an American novelist and blogger living in Seattle, Washington.

[1] She graduated from Forest Lake Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Apopka, Florida in 1993.

She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

[1] Priest lived in Chattanooga for twelve years and it is there she both set her Eden Moore series and wrote the first two books.

[3][4] In addition to her novels, Priest was a reviewer for the Bram Stoker Award-winning website Chiaroscuro and currently is a staff member of Subterranean Press.