Cheryl Grant Gillespie

Cheryl Grant Gillespie, a retired literacy acquisition teacher, is a writer of memoir, creative nonfiction, and contributions to a local magazine. She is proud to be one of the five authors who penned the anthology Compassionate Journey: Honoring Our Mothers' Stories, which was a finalist for the Foreword, Next Generation, and Book Fest Indie Awards in women's and family relationship issues in 2019. Her new book Gracie & Albert launched in October of 2019. She is currently working on a book about a courageous mother who protested the Vietnam War and went on a risky journey behind enemy lines to rescue her son Mark Gartley, a POW.

A Maine native for life, Cheryl is a wife, mother, grandmother, and passionate advocate for mental health support systems.