Cherie Anne Karo Schwartz is a self-employed storyteller, author, and educator who has presented performances, workshops, and storytelling training in Colorado, and also abroad, for over three decades. Author of three books and with stories in a dozen anthologies, she specializes in Jewish tales, natural history, worldwide folktales, and personal and original stories.
Cherie is Jewish, from a Polish, Russian, Hungarian, English, Spanish, and Israeli background. She is likely a descendant of the illustrious Rabbi Yosef Karo, who was born in Spain in 1488 and exiled in 1492 in the Inquisition, went to Greece, and later settled in Israel, where his synagogue is still in use. Rabbi Karo said that he had an angel who sat on his shoulder and whispered stories to him. And he was the author of the Shulchan Arukh, an authoritative work on Jewish law that is still consulted today. Although Cherie was born in Miami, her family has had roots in Colorado since 1919. She was married to Larry Schwartz for 36 beautiful, wondrous years until his passing in 2015.
