Sherri Lynn Wood teaches improvisational quilting as a creative life practice, and is the author of The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters: A Guide to Creating, Quilting & Living Courageously. She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, two MacDowel Fellowships, and numerous artist residencies, including Recology San Francisco, where she undertook the task of presenting a body of work made entirely from materials scavenged from the city dump. She holds a Master’s in Fine Arts in sculpture from Bard College and a degree in Theological Studies from Emory University.