Kari-Lynn Winters & Lori Sherritt-Fleming Author Biography
Kari-Lynn Winters is a picture book author, poet, and performer. She enjoys being in the classroom in any capacity, as a presenter, a teacher, or as a student. Kari didn’t always consider herself a writer. In fact, many of her elementary school years were spent struggling to write. It was her love of storytelling, theatre, and children’s literature that brought Kari to try her skills at writing. Kari-Lynn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Lori Sherritt-Fleming is from a family Irish storytellers. She has been a story collector, writer and editor for several community and city wide heritage groups. Lori is the founder and producer of Vancouver’s Tickle Trunk Players theatre for literacy troupe and performs regularly with them. She is a lover of all things dramatic and literary and thrives on fostering the creative spirit in everyone she encounters.