Traci Sorell

Traci Sorell is an Indigenous author of fiction and nonfiction works for children and teens. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Personal lifestyle Sorell has spent much of her life living within the Cherokee Nation tribe's reservation in northeastern Oklahoma and currently resides with her family by Fort Gibson Lake. Her mother's family has lived in the area since 1838 when Cherokee people were removed from their homelands. She has a younger brother and sister. Her mother, sister, and brother later received degrees as well. We Are Still Here!, We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, and Classified.

Publications Ages 4+ We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, illustrated by Frané Lessac (2018) At the Mountain's Base / ᎾᏍᎩᏃ ᎤᎾᎢ ᎡᎳᏗᏢ ᎣᏓᎸᎢ, ᎾᎢ, illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre (2019) Pow Wow Day, illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight (2022) Being Home, illustrated by Michaela Goade (2024) Clack, Clack! Smack! A Cherokee Stickball Story, illustrated by Joseph Erb (2024)

Ages 7+ Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer, illustrated by Natasha Donovan (2021) One Land, Many Nations: Volume 1 with Lee Francis IV, illustrated by Jesse Hummingbird (2021) We Are Still Here! Native American Truths Everyone Should Know, illustrated by Frané Lessac (2021)

Middle grade Indian No More with Charlene Willing McManis (2019) She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller with Chelsea Clinton, illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint (2022) Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series, illustrated by Arigon Starr (2023) Mascot with Charles Waters (2023) Riding the Trail: Cherokees Remember the Removal with Will Chavez (2026)

Anthology contributions Thanku: Poems of Gratitude, edited by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Marlena Myles (2019) No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley; illustrated by Bradley (2020) The Reluctant Storyteller with Art Coulson, illustrated by Carlin Bear Don't Walk and Roy Boney Jr. (2020) The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth, edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (2020) Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (2021) Wonderful Women of the World, edited by Laurie Halse Anderson (2021) No World Too Big: Young People Fighting for Global Climate Change, edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley; illustrated by Bradley (2023)