Sherrie Fernandez-Williams is a Black, Queer writer who earned her MFA from Hamline University. She is the author of the book of poems, Goddess of the Whole Self, and the memoir Soft. She has published poems and essays in New Limestone Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review, Duke University Press, 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. Her grants and awards include a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, a Black Voices in Children’s Literature award, 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. Sherrie is Operation Director of Queer Voices.