Sherrie Fernandez-Williams

Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, author of Soft: A Memoir holds an MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She is a recipient of an Artist Initiative Award through the Minnesota State Arts Board, a Beyond the Pure Fellowship and SASE/Jerome Grant through Intermedia Arts of Minneapolis. She was a Loft Mentor Series winner for Creative Nonfiction, a Jones’ Commission Award Winner through the Playwrights’ Center and was selected for the Givens Black Writers Collaborative Retreat. She's been published in various literary journals and anthologies such as Aquifer: Florida Review, Subtle-Tea, R-CVRY, Segue, Summit Avenue Review, Branches, The Poverty and Education Reader and How Dare We! Write. Fernandez-Williams discovered her need for words in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born and raised, but she “grew up” as a writer in the Twin Cities. Currently, she resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota.