Sheri Reynolds is the author of the novels Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan (an Oprah book club selection and New York Times bestseller), A Gracious Plenty, Firefly Cloak, and The Sweet In-Between. Her play, Orabelle's Wheelbarrow, won the Women Playwrights' Initiative competition for 2005. Her newest novel, The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb, will be released by Turner Publishing in Fall 2012.

Sheri grew up in a large, extended family in rural South Carolina. She graduated from Conway High School in 1985, Davidson College in 1989, and Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992. She teaches creative writing and literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, where she serves as the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of Southern Literature. In 2003, she won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council for Higher Education of Virginia. In 2005, she received a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in playwriting. She has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, The College of William and Mary, and Davidson College.

Sheri lives in the town of Cape Charles on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

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