Books and Selected Work

Sandra Dorr
has encouraged and
inspired writers for
25 years. She worked
as an editor and
writer in New York for
seven years before
moving to Colorado.

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Books and Selected Work

“Sandra Dorr’s story is a sensual and suggestive portrait of a family complex... here again we sense the importance of young writers who are often moved to reveal extremities, realities at either end of the spectrum – the gratuitously cruel or the phenomenon of innocence preserved against odds.”

– Raymond Carver, American Fiction

Poems:

48 pages, perfectly bound. $9.95 ($12 shipped)

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“‘Lilly Makes an A’ is a present-tense narrative of a domestic experience. The parent in the poem's kitchen watches her daughter learn to make the alphabet and graphically remembers her own experiences as a schoolgirl. She invokes a child's sense of excitement when first learning to write letters. The poet plays with language in the title. ‘Making an A’ is meant literally and as a metaphor for accomplishment. The poem is a multilayered vision about language and learning language... I chose ‘Lilly Makes an A’ for its word play and sensuous description of how we come to make language.”

-- Poet Diane Wakoski, judge for The New Discovery Poetry Award, The Writer, June, 2005

Fiction

Girl in the Sea (novel excerpt)

Articles & Essays:

The Hearts of Horses essay & review, The Bloomsbury Review
Rhapsody for Blackberries – Open Spaces
Introduction to Amber: Writing the Sacred
Finding Wilderness on the Grand Mesa – Colorado Voices, The Denver Post
The War on the Poor in America – Colorado Voices, The Denver Post
Owning' Biblical Research Unlikely – Colorado Voices, The Denver Post
A Shadow over U.S. Patriotism – Colorado Voices, The Denver Post
Harvesting the Fruit of the Border – Colorado Voices, The Denver Post