Winner of the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; Orleans; and Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?

Her novels have appeared on numerous state reading lists and have been recognized by the ALA, Junior Library Guild, and Children’s Book Council. She has also written comics for Wonder Woman, Avatar, and The Simpsons. A former National Book Awards judge, Sherri has held writing residencies across the U.S. and Italy. She teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children program at Hamline University and leads creativity workshops through Story Forest and the Two Trees Writers’ Collaborative.

Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities. 

In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQia+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of extremism fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.