Chris Cryer

Chris Cryer, Instructor of Critical Thinking and Literature at Ventura College, comes from the deep South, where she was aligned with interracial issues in administration at Tuskegee U. in Alabama, in Head Start in Florida, and in a public Montessori Title I program in Tennessee, all predominately Black populations where she met hard-working Black women like Candy, also busy opening hearts and minds.She has written two books, a textbook, Basic College Essay Guide, that served years of college...See more

Chris Cryer, Instructor of Critical Thinking and Literature at Ventura College, comes from the deep South, where she was aligned with interracial issues in administration at Tuskegee U. in Alabama, in Head Start in Florida, and in a public Montessori Title I program in Tennessee, all predominately Black populations where she met hard-working Black women like Candy, also busy opening hearts and minds.She has written two books, a textbook, Basic College Essay Guide, that served years of college students, and her memoir, Tolstoy in Riyadh, which won the Paris Festival Award for Best Biography, the North Texas Book Award for Non-fiction, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Chris' film and book reviews were regular for The LA Times County Edition and the LA Levantine Cultural Center Newsletter through 2015.Dedicated to expanding the voices of the least understood, Cryer's textbook rages against distaste for commas, and her Saudi book unveils the little-known gentility of Saudi men. In A True Love Story from South Central, she takes up the voice of now-deceased Candy Grosz to continue to press for relationship rights for those who need to put culture last and love first. See less