Sherri L. Smith

Sherri L. Smith is the author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction books for young people, including the 2021 Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award winner, The Blossom and the Firefly, and the California Book Awards Gold Medalist, Flygirl. Her novels appear on multiple state reading lists and have been named Amelia Bloomer, Junior Library Guild, Children's Book Council, and American Library Association Best Books for Young People selections. She also writes comics, including Wonder Woman, Bart Simpson Comics, and James Cameron's Avatar. Sherri holds certificates in the Art of Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis, Enchantivism, and Applied Mythology. She currently teaches at Hamline University. Her latest nonfiction book with Elizabeth Wein, American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky (Putnam), was a NAACP Image Award nominee. Her graphic novel Pearl (Graphix/Scholastic), with art by Christine Norrie, received five starred reviews. Sherri’s most recent novel, Candace, the Universe, and Everything, is an ALA Core selection for Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction and an Ignyte Awards finalist. Learn more at www.sherrilsmith.com or follow her on Instagram @rhymeswithcapri.

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