Grand Junction Workshops

Editing and Coaching

Retreats

About Sandy

Selected Work

Response From Writers

Awards and Honors

• The Soapstone Foundation, Oregon, 2006
• The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico,1988, 1984
• The Ucross Foundation, 1986
• The Edward Albee Foundation, New York, 1986
• Yaddo, New York, 1984, 1981
• The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 1983
• Blue Mountain Center, New York, 1983
• The Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, New York, 1982

Literature Fellowships

• Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, 1992
• Oregon Arts Commission, 1992
• Wyoming Council on the Arts, 1988
  

Writing Awards, Grants

• "New Discovery" Contest, The Writer & Rosebud, 2005, for "Lilly Makes an A"
• Salt Hill Review, second prize, poetry contest, and Colorado Poetry Society, first prize, open contest, for "Impermeable"
• The American Fiction Award, 1988, for "Writing in the Dark"
• The Rebecca Knoettege Fiction Award, Graduate Creative Work Award and Graduate School Foundation Fund Award, University of Colorado, 1985-86.
• The Ruth Underhill fiction award, Denver Women's Press Club, 1986,
• National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Harvard/Tufts Universities, 1979.
• Le Monde, La Stampa, Reuters, EEC writing fellowship, Paris, 1975-76.