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A native of Beaumont, Texas, LISA SANDLIN is the author of
The Famous Thing About
Death (Cinco Puntos P, 1991) and Message to the Nurse of Dreams
(Cinco Puntos P, 1997), which won the Violet Crown Award from the
Austin Writers League and the Jesse H Jones Award from the Texas
Institute of Letters. Her writing has appeared in
Shenandoah, The New York Times, Southwest Review, Crazy Horse,
Story Quarterly,
and elsewhere.
The recipient of the NEA Fellowship, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, and a
Pushcart Prize,
she received her BA from Rice University,
and her MFA from Vermont College.
She is a Professor of English at Wayne State College, where
she teaches creative writing.
She is the co-editor of Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press),
which was named the Poetry Honor Book
and won
Best Cover Design/Illustration in the 2003 Nebraska Book Awards.
Her newest book is a collection of short stories,
In the River Province, to be published by Southern Methodist
University Press in spring 2004.
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