Charlotte Sherman, Writer

Charlotte dreamed of being a writer since Pippi Longstocking hijacked her imagination. Her poetry has been published in Obsidian, The Black Scholar, Obsidian II, Painted Bride Quarterly, Permafrost, and Gathering Ground: New Writing and Art by Northwest Women of Color. Charlotte has also published a collection of short fiction, Killing Color, Calyx Books (1992); two novels, One Dark Body, HarperCollins (1993) and touch, HarperCollins (1995;; an anthology, Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry, HarperCollins (1994); and a children’s book, Eli and the Swamp Man, HarperCollins (1996). A picture book, Brown Sugar Babe, is forthcoming from Starberry Books (2020).

Charlotte on Art and Nature

Charlotte is a West Coast-loving, Pacific Northwest-born, Emerald City girl. She grew up beholding white-crowned mountains so majestic, their peaks merged with the clouds. Vast cobalt lakes. The rain that feeds the evergreen forests also nourished her soul. Gray and blue and green are the foundational palette of her writing life.