This novel can also be categorized as a climate fiction novel, which uses fiction to speculate about reality after climate disasters. Orleans can be categorized as a dystopian, Afrofuturist novel.
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (Penguin Workshop: New York 2018).The Toymaker’s Apprentice (Penguin/G.P.Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet (Random House/Delacorte Press: New York 2008).Sparrow (Random House/Delacorte Press: New York 2006).Lucy the Giant (Random House/Delacorte Press: New York 2002).She is on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program and Hamline University's MFA in Children's Writing Program. She is writing novels for young adults, including Flygirl, Sparrow, Orleans, and Lucy the Giant. Smith lives in Los Angeles with her partner and her cat. She is a member of the Two Trees Writers' Collaborative. Sherri teaches at Goddard College and Hamline University.
After that, she spent nine years working at Bongo Comics. This is where she began work on her first novel. After leaving Disney, Smith worked with a construction company at Los Angeles International Airport. She worked for three years at Disney TV Animation. Smith worked in stop-motion animation for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!. She also has a certificate in Enchantivism from the Pacifica Institute. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and Broadcast Journalism, an M.S.
After high school, she went to college to study film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Since then she has moved around all of the three coasts: New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles. Her novel Flygirl was selected as one of the American Library Association's 2010 Best Books for Young Adults.
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