Dinner Lecture - Cheryl Pallant

Dinner Lecture Series

Featured Speaker:
Cheryl Pallant

About Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant is a writer, poet, dancer, writing coach, workshop leader, and professor. She has worked as a journal editor and dance reviewer, and is the author of ten books. She recently completed Ginseng Tango, a memoir on the year she spent in Korea, and is currently writing a book on creativity and mindfulness, based on exercises she has developed in a series of workshops she has long been conducting on creativity and innovation. She teaches creative writing, poetry, contact improvisation, Writing From the Body, and other workshops in creativity and innovation in the U.S. and abroad. She maintains the Richmond Contact Improvisation Jam and organizes the Fall East Coast Jam. She has practiced meditation, mostly Zen, for over thirty years. She is trained in Reiki, Process-Oriented Psychology, yoga, and Authentic Movement. Ongoing interests include tango, bicycling, hiking, postmodernism, somatics, sustainability, and delight.