Cheryl is part of the group of people who advise Gary K Wolfe on likely works for the Crawford Award. This is an award for a debut fantasy book. This year's winner was Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune (Tor dot com). The runners up were:

• Night Roll, Michael DeLuca (Stelliform)
• Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian Jarboe (Lethe)
• Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings (Tordotcom)
• In Veritas, C.J. LaVigne (NeWest)
• Beneath the Rising, Premee Mohamed (Solaris)