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Sheri Reynolds



Sheri Reynolds is an author of contemporary Southern fiction.

Sheri Reynolds was born and raised in rural South Carolina. She graduated from Conway High School in 1985, Davidson College in 1989, and Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992.

Her published novels include Bitterroot Landing, The Rapture of Canaan (an Oprah book club selection and New York Times bestseller), A Gracious Plenty (98), Firefly Cloak (06), The Sweet In-Between (08), and The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb (12). Her first play, Orabelle's Wheelbarrow, won the Women Playwrights' Initiative playwriting competition for 2005.

Also Professor of English and the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of Southern Literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, Sheri teaches creative writing and literature classes. She won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council for Higher Education of Virginia in 2003. In 2005, she received a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in playwriting. She has also taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, The College of William and Mary, and Davidson College.

Sheri lives in the town of Cape Charles on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
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All the Ruined Men (2022)
Bill Glose
"In this collection, Bill Glose hinges the traumas of war to everyday events: playing poker, hosting a party, digging a pool. All the Ruined Men is an impressive debut from a seasoned storyteller who understands nuance and character and how memory abides inside every present moment. These stories are brutal, disarming, tender, and wrenching. They are also very well-written - lyrical, yet understated - harrowing, piercing, fierce."
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The Teachers' Room (2022)
Lydia Stryk
"It's 1963, and in her first year in the classroom, Karen Murphy is 'a little too brave,' and not just with her students. The lessons she teaches are often quite different from the lessons she intends or the ones that she has learned. In this fast-moving, vibrant, funny, and wrenching story, Lydia Stryk brings her expert understanding of timing and dramatic tension to fiction, creating a novel that's at once a mystery, a love story, and a history lesson."

Awards
Oprah's Book Club Best Book nominee (1997) : The Rapture of Canaan


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