Cheryl A. Head

Biography

Cheryl A. Head is an American author, former television producer, broadcast executive, and organizer. She is the author of the Charlie Mack Motown mysteries, whose female PI protagonist is queer and Black. She is also author of Time's Undoing published in 2023. Head is a two-time Anthony Award nominee, a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, an Agatha Award finalist, and a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist. She is the winner of the 2026 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Fiction Contest, and winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society's Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, for Judge Me When I'm Wrong, the fourth book of the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series. Her books are included in the Detroit Public Library's African American Booklist and the Special Collections of the Library of Michigan.

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