Cherie Nelson Senie (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator from Kansas. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Literature from Colorado State University and is a former editor of Ruminate Magazine. Her critical and creative work has been published in Prairie Schooner, The Florida Review, Hobart, Ecotheo Review, Speculative Nonfiction, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere. Her essays have been selected as a finalist for Best of the Net 2020, a winner of Prairie Schooner's Glenna Luschei award, and second place in The Florida Review's Editor Awards. 

Her debut essay collection, God Stars, is forthcoming from Orison Books. She lives in Northern Colorado with her family where she works as an elementary school librarian.