Sheri Reynolds, a Davidson graduate ('89), is the author of the novels Bitterroot Landing, The rapture of Canaan (an Oprah Book club selection and New York Times bestseller), A Gracious Plenty, Firefly Cloak, The Sweet In-Between, The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb, and the play Orabelle's Wheelbarrow. She teaches creative writing and literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she is the Ruth and Perry Morgan Chair of Southern Literature and is currently the English Department Chair. She makes her home in the town of Cape Charles on Virginia's eastern shore.