Welcome to the Shelf Care Interview, an occasional conversation series where Booklist talks to book people. This Shelf Care Interview is sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group.
In this episode of the Shelf Care Interview, Julia Smith talks to Traci Sorell. Traci is the award-winning author of We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, which received a Sibert honor, a Boston Globe–Horn Book honor, an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) honor, and an Orbis Pictus honor. She also wrote At the Mountain’s Base, an AIYLA honor book, and coauthored Indian No More, an AIYLA winner. She has penned poems for anthologies such as Thanku: Poems of Gratitude and No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History. Like Mary Golda Ross, Traci is a Cherokee Nation citizen—although writing comes easier to her than math. She lives in Oklahoma.
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer is on sale March 2, 2021 from Lerner.
