Cheré Coen
Cheré Dastugue Coen is an award-winning journalist and author living in Portland, Oregon. A native of New Orleans, Cheré began her career in communications at the 1984 World’s Fair. She has worked for or currently writes for Variety magazine in Hollywood, AAA Southern Traveler, Ruralite, TravelAge West and several Deep South publications and blogs. In addition, she pens the weekly Weird, Wacky and Wild South blog and writes both non-fiction books under her birth name and novels under the pen name of Cherie Claire. She is a graduate of LSU journalism school and has a master of arts in writing from Spalding University.