Sheryl Boris-Schacter built her career in education as a teacher, principal, professor, and leader of a national nonprofit, using writing as a tool to connect research with real-world practice. She is the author of more than twenty scholarly articles and two nonfiction books on educational leadership, including Balanced Leadership: How Effective Principals Manage Their Work (Teachers College Press).

Today, she writes creative nonfiction that explores identity, family, and the shifting meanings of gender across generations. Her memoir, REVISION: A Gender Memoir-in-Essays, draws on both her professional insight and personal history.

Sheryl holds doctoral and master’s degrees from Harvard University. Her creative work has been shaped by Grub Street courses, an online writing group, and residencies at Haven in Montana, the Wellstone Center in Santa Cruz, and the Ragdale Foundation in Chicago.

She lives with her husband in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she divides her time between writing, traveling, gardening, hiking, cooking, collecting kitschy salt and pepper shakers, and attempting—sometimes successfully—to identify birds.