Bio
Merci Beaucoup for stopping by sherylcornett.com. I love conversation, so would enjoy hearing from you. A bit about myself: I’m from North Carolina, by way of early days in Virginia and Texas. In my teens my dad’s job moved our family to Paris, France. The city of light to this day is my most important Alma Mater. I’ve also lived in East Africa and been a many summers’ resident of London, England. As a traveling Southerner and I have come to be a dual citizen of North Carolina and South Louisiana.
I’ve been writing my whole life, publishing poems and stories since the age of seventeen. The print and digital worlds of arts journals and magazines is a special community, sustaining the creative life for me while teaching full time for many years at NC State and raising four children who bless me daily.
No Secrets in This House got written and revised after pausing teaching (for now). I can’t wait for you to meet Maddie, Trish, Clare, and Mama Avila—plus their babies, friends, and men—and share their secrets and stories, which unfold amidst life on a North Carolina barrier island. Thirty miles off NC’s mainland, out in the Wild Atlantic, Ocracoke’s shoreline is part of the Graveyard of the Atlantic, which German U-Boats’ torpedoes made even more deadly during WWII. No Secrets tells the story of that era’s fallout on this family of women into the present day.
When I’m not writing or traveling with my guy to and from North Carolina, or adventuring abroad, I relish long family visits, and dinner with friends. I garden, cook, beach-walk, visit independent bookstores and, of course, read.
