Sheri Reynolds (born c. 1967) is an author of contemporary

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fiction. She was born and raised in rural

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and lives on

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's eastern shore. She graduated from Conway High School in 1985,

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in 1989, and

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in 1992. She is an

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and the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of

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. Reynolds teaches

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and literature classes. She won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council for

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of Virginia in 2003, and in 2005, she received a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in playwriting. She has also taught at

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, and

. Her first play, ''Orabelle's Wheelbarrow'', won the Women Playwrights' Initiative playwriting competition for 2005.

Selected works

*''Bitterroot Landing'' (1994) *'' The Rapture of Canaan'', an

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selection and

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(1997) *''A Gracious Plenty'' (1999) *'' The Firefly Cloak'' (2006) *''The Sweet In-Between'' (2008)

External links

''Orabelle's Wheelbarrow'' can be read at Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts
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