Cherry Muhanji is the pen name of Jeannette Delaine Washington (born April 26, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan), an American writer. She is best known for her novel Her, which won a Ferro-Grumley Award and a Lambda Literary Award in 1991, and the anthology Tight Spaces, which she copublished with Kesho Y. Scott and and which won an American Book Award in 1988. She has also published poetry and short stories in literary magazines and anthologies and is currently working on a memoir.