About me
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams is a Black, Queer writer who earned her MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She was a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and received a Black Voices in Children’s Literature award. She received additional grants and awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Loft Literary Center, The Givens Foundation for African American Literature, Intermedia Arts, SASE: The Write Place, and The Playwrights’ Center. The author of the book of poems, Goddess of the Wholeself, and the memoir Soft, Fernandez-Williams, has published poems in journals including New Limestone Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review, and Duke University Press, among others. Her essays can be found in anthologies including We are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, How Dare We Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse, and The Poverty and Education Reader. Sherrie co-directs Queer Voices Minnesota. She teaches creative nonfiction in the low-residency MFA Program at Augsburg University and Critical Reading and Writing at Hamline University.