Cheryl Strayed
2007 Jack Straw Writers Program

Cheryl Strayed's critically acclaimed novel TORCH was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. Her award-winning stories and essays have appeared in more than a dozen magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and The Sun. Widely anthologized, her work has been selected for inclusion in The Best New American Voices 2003 and twice in The Best American Essays.

Listen to Cheryl's interview with 2007 curator Matt Briggs and highlights from her live reading in the Jack Straw May Reading Series.