Biography

LISA SANDLIN is the author of The Famous Thing About Death (Cinco Puntos 1991); Message to the Nurse of Dreams (Cinco Puntos 1997), which won the Violet Crown Award from the Austin Writers League and the Jesse H Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters; In the River Province (SMU Press 2004); and is a co-editorTimes of Sorrow, Times of Grace (Backwaters Press 2002). Her book You Who Made the Sky Bend (Pinyon Publishing 2011) received a New Mexico Book Award; it is a collaboration with santera Catherine Ferguson. Her work 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, Lisa Sandlin received her BA from Rice University, and her MFA from Vermont College.