MARYA PATRICE SHERRON

Every triumph. Every loss. Every moment that shapes us finds new meaning in the telling… and may even change a life.

Memoir, children’s literature, reflective nonfiction, and stories for the screen… all rooted in love, identity, belonging, and becoming.

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NEW & AVAILABLE NOW I Was Listening: Love, Legacy, and Becoming by Marya Patrice Sherron

“Who are we because of the people who raised us?”

MEMOIR ✦ CHILDREN’S BOOKS ✦ PERSONAL REFLECTION ✦ SCREENWRITING

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THE WORK

Books that begin with a question
and stay for the becoming.

I write for readers of different ages, but my stories return to the same human concerns: how we belong, how we survive, how we remember, and how we find the courage to become more fully ourselves.

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I Was Listening

Love, Legacy, & Becoming

A deeply personal memoir in letters about the lessons we absorb from the people who raise us… and the love, loss, music, and memory we carry forward.

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CHILDREN’S BOOK

Time to Dance

A story about choosing to live fully

A joyful, imaginative reminder that life is not something to watch from the sidelines. It is something to enter with courage, wonder, and movement.

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FIND YOUR NEXT READ

Stories for different
seasons of life.

FOR YOUNG READERS

Wonder, courage, and belonging

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Grief, faith, advocacy, and self-discovery

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WRITING BEYOND THE PAGE

Stories written
for the screen.

My screenwriting and documentary work carries the same literary heartbeat: intimate characters, layered human questions, and worlds shaped by belonging.

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FADE IN:

A story begins before anyone knows exactly where it will lead.

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BOOKS BY MARYA

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