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Sherrie Fernandez-Williams is a new voice in memoir that youll want to know: accomplished, unblinking, right there, telling truth. Soft is about coming up through poverty and silence and getting grown, about writing as an act of faith, adoption and the shock of motherhood, terror and the hard, true path of love. A bracing, tender story that rings with joy. Turns out that crazy optimism and the disappointment it reaps can actually bloom, and life could be as spectacular as a light show of celestial bodies. --Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling
About the author
Sherrie Fernandez-Williams holds an MFA in Writing from Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and is the recipient of an Artist Initiative Award through the Minnesota State Arts Board as well as a SASE/Jerome Grant through Intermedia Arts of Minneapolis. She was a Loft Mentor Series winner for Creative Nonfiction, selected for a Givens Black Writers Collaborative Retreat, and received a Jones Commission Award for new playwrights through the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis. Excerpts of her memoir have been published in several literary journals and anthologies. 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 Twin Cities. She resides and teaches in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
