Sherri Cook Woosley

Sherri Cook Woosley earned her M.A. in English Language and Literature from University of Maryland, College Park. She taught high school English before accepting graduate funding to teach classes in academic writing and world mythology at University of Maryland. Academically Sherri has published "Mythological and Archetypal Images in The Peach Thief" and presented an excerpt from her Master's research, "Women in the Shadow," at a Rutgers Conference entitled Disciplinary Boundaries.

Currently Sherri runs "The Fifteenth Dame Lisbet Throckmorton Contest" -- an annual short fiction contest. This behind-the-scenes experience as a judge and editor has grown into accepting editing jobs for creative fiction. Her fiction has been published by Mount Zion Fiction Review and her story "The Man with the Patchwork Soul" is included in the September 2008 Maryland Writers' Association anthology, New Lines from the Old Line State.