Author and educator Traci Sorell will visit Bowling Green as part of BGSU’s In the Round series Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23. Sorell writes inclusive, award-winning historical and contemporary fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats for young people.
She will give two free public talks will in BG:
- Friday, March 22 at 5:30 p.m. in Olscamp 101 on campus.
- Saturday, March 23 at 10 a.m. in the Wood County District Public Library in downtown BG.
Sorell written numerous children’s, middle grade, and young adult fiction, including “Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Space Engineer.” At the library event, the Mazza Museum will have a selection of her books available for purchase, and WBGU-PBS will be providing copies of “Classified” to the first 100 people at this event. Learn more.
Sorell is a two-time Sibert Medal and Orbis Pictus honoree and award-winning audiobook narrator and producer. Her first five books have received awards from the American Indian Library Association.
A former federal Indigenous law attorney and policy advocate, Sorell is a Cherokee Nation citizen and first-generation college graduate. She lives with her family within her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.
In The Round is a speaker series featuring Native American Creatives. The series seeks to render visible—to the BGSU and local communities—the artistry, activism, and presence of contemporary Native American artists. This series is an extension of the recently-developed BGSU Land Acknowledgment, which provides a foundation upon which the university can build purposeful and sustained practices that seek to decolonize our institution.
