Adoption advocate, speaker, and author, Sherilyn Olsen resides in mountainous South Ogden, Utah with her quiet husband and four wonderfully noisy children. She graduated from her hometown school, Weber State University, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and English. She has worked for the State of Utah ever since, where she currently teaches workshops. Several of her essays have been published, and Searched the World Over for Elie, An International Adoption Story is her first full-length book.