Traci Sorell

Traci Sorell

Biography

Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. In 2023, she shares CONTENDERS: TWO NATIVE BASEBALL PLAYERS, ONE WORLD SERIES, a nonfiction picture book biography illustrated by Arigon Starr, and MASCOT, a middle grade fiction novel-in-verse co-authored with Charles Waters. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree for her nonfiction work. Her first five books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association. A former federal Indigenous law attorney and advocate, Traci lives in the Cherokee Nation reservation in northeast Oklahoma.

Events with Traci Sorell

Writing Truthfully for Kids about Today’s Issues

13 May 2023
2:30 pm
AIA Center for Architecture Room 532