Cherie Magnus, born and raised in Los Angeles, was a dance research librarian in the L.A. Central Library and a dance critic for local newspapers before moving to France, Mexico, and finally Argentina in 2003. Many of her articles on dance, travel and international culture have been published in magazines, professional journals, and several anthologies. The author of the DEATH DANCE DESTINY memoir trilogy, The Church of Tango, and its prequel, Arabesque: Dancing on the Edge in Los Angeles, and finally, Intoxicating Tango: My Years in Buenos Aires. She returned to L.A. in 2014, where she works as a reference librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library