Traci Sorell writes award-winning fiction and nonfiction for young people of all ages, focusing primarily on the contemporary lives of Native peoples. Her debut nonfiction picture book We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, illustrated by Frané Lessac, won an American Indian Youth Literature Award (AIYLA) Honor, an Orbis Pictus Honor, a Sibert Honor, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. A former federal Indian law attorney and policy advocate, Traci is a 2021-22 Tulsa Artist Fellow and Cherokee Nation citizen who lives on her tribe’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma.
