May the Circle

Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, author of Soft: A Memoir is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, a Beyond the Pure Fellowship, and SASE/Jerome Grant. She was a Loft Mentor Series winner in Creative Nonfiction and a Jones’ Playwright Commission Award Winner and was selected for the Givens Black Writers Collaborative. She’s published poems and essays in various literary journals, including New Limestone Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review, Serendipity, and Wrath-Bearing Tree, among others. Her work also is featured in the anthologies The Poverty and Education Reader (2014) and How Dare We! Write (2017).