Author Cherie Dargan is a retired Community College teacher who reinvented herself in retirement. As an active volunteer, writer, blogger, family historian, and techi, Dargan has mastered writing historical accounts and successfully navigating the publication world. Through her own experiences, Dargan developed a series titled GRANDMOTHER’S TREASURES about a midwestern family, American war, and the history quilts hold. 

Dargan’s writings include the short story “The Scars You See,” which will be published in the Writers of Cedar Valley 2021 anthology, and the chapter “Mind and Soil: An Iowa Town Grow Writers” in the SOWER AND THE SEER: PERSPECTIVE IN THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, March 2021.

Cherie Dargan earned her B. A. from Buena Vista University, an M. A. from Iowa State, and another M. A. from the University of Northern Iowa. She is a member of the Cedar Falls Supper Club, served on the Planning Committee for the Cedar Falls Authors Festival, webmaster and researcher for the Ruth Suckow and Cedar Falls Author’s Festival websites, and president and webmaster of the League of Women Voters of Black Hawk/Bremer Counties.

Cherie Dargan’s GRANDMOTHER’S TREASURES, Book One, THE GIFT is due to come out in Spring 2022.

Geeky Grandma Website/Blog – www.geekygrandma.org

Blogger Blog – www.bloggingbasicswithcherie.blogspot.com

(New) Facebook Author Page – www.facebook.com/Cherie-Dargan-Writer-106756544789778

Ruth Suckow Webmaster – www.ruthsuckow.org

Cedar Falls Authors Festival Webmaster – www.cfauthorsfestival.org/

League of Women Voters of Black Hawk/Bremer Counties, President & Webmaster – www.lwvbhb.org