She was also the 2021 Mina Hohenburg Darden Visiting Professor at Old Dominion University. Her jobs have included working stop-motion animation on Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!, and three years at Disney TV Animation, helping to create stories for animated home video projects.Ĭurrently, Sherri teaches in the MFA in Children’s Writing Program at Hamline University. She has worked in film, animation, comic books, construction, and a monster factory. Sherri holds a certificates in the Art of Archetypal Fairy Tale Analysis from the Assisi Institute in Enchantivism-a form of "activism for introverts" that uses deep storytelling, mythology, dreams and the environment to enact positive change in the world- from Pacifica Graduate Institute and in Applied Mythology, also from Pacifica.īorn in Chicago, IL, Sherri has lived on all three coasts (West, East and Lake Michigan!). Sherri holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Broadcast Journalism, an M.S. She has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook in Washington State, Wellstone-in-the-Redwoods and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in California, and Wassard Elea in Ascea, Italy. Sherri was a 2014 National Book Awards judge in the Young People’s Literature category. She also writes comics, including Bart Simpson Comics, James Cameron's Avatar and most recently, Wonder Woman. Her novels appear on multiple state reading lists and have been named Amelia Bloomer, Junior Library Guild, Children's Book Council, Southern California Independent Booksellers Award, and American Library Association Best Books for Young People selections.
Smith is the author of multiple 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.
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