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. 

She is currently working on a memoir-in-essays about leaving her fundamentalist Evangelical faith. She lives in Northern Colorado with her partner where she works as an elementary school librarian.