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Cheryl Montelle and I talked about writing, dancing, acting, and life. Cheryl is a treasure. She operates from a place of open-heartedness and passion. We can all learn something from her brilliance!

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it for you.

Cheryl Montelle is a Southern California–based writer whose work has appeared in DivineCaroline.com and numerous anthologies, including Travelers’ Tales: A Woman’s World Again, Deliver Me: True Confessions of Motherhood, Raging Gracefully, A Cup of Comfort for Mothers-to-Be, Fresh Yarn, Seven Seas, On The Bus, Rattle, Moth, Spillway, The Desert Writers 2024, Method Writers Speak, and Issued: Stories of Service.

She has performed her work in Los Angeles, Joshua Tree, and New York City. From 2007 to 2019, Cheryl produced, curated, and hosted Desert Stories, an annual spoken word fundraiser for the High Desert Playhouse in Joshua Tree. In 2010, she brought the event—titled Live From Joshua Tree—to boxOFFICE Gallery in New York City and, with artist Diane Best, created Desert Stories, a handmade, limited-edition art book featuring eleven writers and artists.

Since 2020, Cheryl has continued producing Live From Joshua Tree as a fundraiser for Mil-Tree, the veteran arts nonprofit she founded in 2013, dedicated to integrating veterans into the broader community through artistic expression, dialogue, and creative entrepreneurship. She has also collaborated with The Laboratory, an international, multifaceted arts magazine, and created Red Arrow Reads and Mil-Tree Reads. This series brings acclaimed writers to Joshua Tree.

Visit her non-profit at: www.mil-tree.org

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