Sandra Dorr - About Sandy

About Sandy

Sandra Dorr has encouraged and inspired writers for 25 years, as a passion and a calling. She worked as an editor and writer in New York in the 1980s’ before moving to Colorado, where she completed an M.A. in creative writing and began teaching at universities in the West; Lewis & Clark College, Linfield College, Portland State University, Pacific College, and the University of Wyoming. In the 1990s,’ she directed Washington State University-Vancouver’s writing program.

She also became an NPR commentator, and worked early on with children and adults as a poet-in-residence throughout the West. The author of two books on women’s health and travel, she is at work on a novel, Girl in the Sea. Poems in her poetry collection, Desert Water (Lithic Press, Colorado, spring, 2009) won The Writer/Rosebud’s New Discovery prize, a Salt Hill prize, and first prize in the Colorado Poetry Society’s open contest, among others.

Her short stories, essays and poems appear in Ms. the Denver Post, Open Spaces, American Fiction, and other journals. She studies with shamans, Christian and Buddhist teachers, and lives with her husband and children in western Colorado, in a house they built on the edge of canyon wilderness.

Articles about Sandra Dorr

Books Edited and Coached by Sandra Dorr

Inconceivable & The Fertile Female, Julia Indichova, New York City

Travels with Turtle: from Oregon to Nova Scotia & Return, Harriet Denison, Portland, OR

Who Killed Sal Mineo? and Family Circle: the Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left, Susan Braudy, New York City

Cornsilk: Growing Up Green, Jane Glazer, Portland

Inbetween (in progress), Kristen Grant, Grand Junction

River of Lost Souls (in progress), C. Jane Miller, Mesa, CO.