Traci Sorell writes award-winning trade published fiction and nonfiction works for young people. Born and raised in northeastern Oklahoma, she is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation and lives on her tribe's reservation near Fort Gibson Lake. Her work focuses on combating the erasure and invisibility of Native Nations and their citizens while centering their humanity, sovereignty, histories, cultures and languages in trade published literature for young people.
Traci's nonfiction books include We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga (2018); Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer (2021); and, We Are Still Here: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know (2021). Her fiction books include At The Mountain’s Base (2019); Indian No More (2019); and Powwow Day (2022).
Traci earned a JD from the University of Wisconsin, a MA from the University of Arizona and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. A first generation college graduate and former federal Indigenous law and policy advocate, she now serves as a 2021-22 Tulsa Artist Fellow, focusing on writing in formats new to her.
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