About Sherri

Sherri Levine is a poet, educator, and mental health advocate who lives in Portland, Oregon. She recently was awarded the Patricia Ruth Banta Award which honors an indivdual who has made a significant contribution to Oregon Poetry awarded by the Oregon Poetry Association (OPA). Her poem, “Facedown,” won the Lois Cranston Memorial Prize. Sherri has won First Prize (Poet’s Choice) in the Biannual Contest and also The National Poetry Month Award (OPA) Her work has been published in many national and international jounrals and anthologies such as Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Calx, and The Jewish Literary Jounal. Her full-length poetry collection, Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors, (Kelsay Press, 2021) was an Alzheimer’s Author’s pick for their national book club. She published A Joy to See (Just a Lark Books, 2023), an ekphrastic poetry book of 30 prominent poets responding to her late mother, Kay Levine’s artwork. The next book she published, I Remember Not Sleeping, is an illustrated poetry book dedicated those struggling with mental illness or know someone who is. Her forthcoming anthology, Waking in the Blue: Poetry & Essays about Mental Health will be released in April 2027.

contact: sherrihope68@gmail.com