Cheryl HAZELL – Website Contributor

Cheryl Hazell – Website Contributor, Poet, Editor, Writer, & Genealogist

Cheryl Hazell – 2007 Photo

Biographical Profile: CHERYL- ANN HAZELL

CONTACT INFO:

nnekaderrick@yahoo.ca
647- 435- 7149

CHERYL’s BLOG: http://sayins.blogspot.com/

CHERYL HAZELL’S ST. VINCENT FAMILY LINES – CLICK HERE

St. Vincent & the Grenadines Genealogy Research would like to acknowledge Cheryl Hazell a.k.a Nneka (en-nay-ka) for her contributions to our website. We appreciate her sharing personal family tree research that has taken many years to compile, plus photos and detailed information on her ancestors. Cheryl is a Toronto-based freelance urban culture writer and personal/celebrity assistant who was born in Stoney Ground, St Vincent. This ex-radio program producer hails from Montreal where she and other multi-talented artists took command of the Afrikan-Canadian poetry scene in the late ’90s.

Nneka is a contributing writer to WORD magazine, is proud to be featured in the Afrikan-Canadian publication “T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers and can be heard on Scotiabank radio commercials aired in the Eastern Caribbean. Nneka is currently working on her first chapbook entitled What I’m Sayin’. She can also be found on various genealogical sites to which she has proudly and commitedly contributed her knowledge on St Vincent and Bequia families.

Cheryl’s Published Articles & Poetry

Contributor:
T-Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers
T-Dot Griots Book Review

WORD Magazine Feature Writer:
Fashion – Maurice Malone
Music – Brian McKnight
Music – Wu Tang Clan
Music – Joe

AND THEN…..
by Cheryl Hazell

And then he kissed me.

All up and down.

Blue to brown stares, pale to dark, species to species.

And then we waited,

Hushed in a printed meadow of blues and purples

As a goal was scored beyond our breaths.

And then he whispered that it’s all the same,

That before he knew me, he’d already known the game.

And then a silent hand replaced

The veil encasing us in ambient space.

Copyright© 1999 Cheryl Hazell

Cheryl’s Musical Interests:

Parang

Machel Montano

Coldplay

Nickleback

Our Lady Peace

Gyptian

Destra