Bernette Sherman is the author of several books across multiple genres including Star Jumpers and The Story of Ervin James in addition to being a playwright and song lyricist. Her stageplay, Four Wives and a Will, was selected for and produced as part of the 2021 SheATL Summer Theater Festival. Her short play, Soil, will be performed as part of the Blue Series’ Bridges and Boundaries theatrical event at the Apex Museum in Atlanta in September 2022.

Bernette has appeared as a special guest on NPR’s Dante’s Old South, the Empowerment Starts Here podcast, at Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta, with the Delta Sigma Theta Queens NY chapter, and The Atlanta Writers Club. She’s done talks and workshops with Atlanta Writers Club, Broadleaf Writers Association, Cobb County Public Library.