Travel Writer and Photographer

Cheryl Blackerby is a writer and photographer based in West Palm Beach, Florida, who travels the world from Paris to Jerusalem to Jamaica. She is frequently in the tropics looking for flamingos in Inagua, Bahamas, howler monkeys in Belize and celebrities in Miami Beach.

Her stories have run in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle and others.

Assignments have included attending a jackaroo (cowboy) school in the outback of Australia; traveling solo on a 30-day trip around the world; riding an Arabian horse village-to-village in the snowy mountains of Turkey; and taking a small motorboat on the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe dodging hippos and crocodiles.

As travel columnist for The Palm Beach Daily News (Fl.), she pursued fine wines in Napa Valley, Hudson Valley, Mendoza, Argentina, and Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

At The Coastal Star (Fl.), she covers environmental issues ranging from sea rise to plastic pollution in the oceans.

Awards:

First Place, 2016 Florida Press Club, Travel Writing, The Palm Beach Daily News
First Place, 2016 Florida Press Association, Environmental Writing, The Coastal Star
First Place, 2014 Florida Press Club, Travel Writing, The Palm Beach Daily News
First Place, 2014 Florida Press Club, Environmental Writing, The Coastal Star
First Place, 2013 Florida Press Association, Environmental Writing, The Coastal Star


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