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Born in Pleebo, Southeastern Liberia in West Africa, Cherbo Geeplay is a Liberian native. He has previously written about: Africa, the Liberian civil war and its tragedy, his Grebo heritage, and everything in between. Geeplay published his short story, ‘A CHECKPOINT AWAY FROM DYING’ in a literary magazine in the United States, which tells of the dire struggles of a family desperately trying to survive a gruesome war. Cherbo Geeplay was part of the younger Liberian youth, forced to attend college during the brutal civil war. He studied at the University of Liberia, majoring in Journalism, Liberian College of Arts, and while in college, he worked in the media as a senior staff reporter for several news outlets. His work has been described as intelligent and has been praised by a number of critics. His poetry first appeared in Sea Breeze Journal (Liberia, 2009) and in the Blue Lake Review (New York, 2018). Rigorous, a New Orleans based literary magazine, was also the publisher of his poems and debut short story, 2019. Geeplay has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies and was also a finalist of THE ADELAIDE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY in the Adelaide Literary Magazine, 2018, based in New York. Geeplay Lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.