Sherri Winston

Sherri Winston, author of Shark Teeth, Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution (Bloomsbury), and President of the Whole Fifth Grade, grew up on Lake Michigan with two brothers and two sisters. As a kid, she spent time in her grandparents’ backyard fantasizing about becoming an author.  

Before Winston, a Michigan native, became an author, she was a longtime newspaper writer and columnist.  

Shark Teeth is an honor book for The Schneider Family Book Award, winner of The Walter Dean Myers Award for outstanding middle-grade literature, and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Lotus Bloom was longlisted for the National Book Award.