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, Enchantivisim, and Applied Mythology. She currently teaches at Hamline University. Her new books are the nonfiction American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky (Putnam) with Elizabeth Wein, and the graphic novel Pearl (Graphix/Scholastic), with art by Christine Norrie. Learn more at www.sherrilsmith.com
