Traci Sorell

Best-selling author Traci Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people. She is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree as well as an award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Her first five books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association. Other accolades include Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, International Literacy Association's Social Justice Literature Award Winner, Reading The West’s Picture Book Winner, and many Best-of and Notables lists. In 2024, she shares two fiction picture books - Being Home illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade and Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story illustrated by Joseph Erb. She also has On Powwow Day, a numbers-colors-sound words concept board book illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight, and a boxed mini four board book set - We Are Grateful Otsaliheliga Seasons - illustrated by Frané Lessac. A former federal Indigenous law attorney and policy advocate, Traci is a Cherokee Nation citizen and first-generation college graduate. She lives with her family within her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma. For more about Traci and her work, visit tracisorell dot com.