Lisa Sandlin
- Chair, Professor
Additional Information
Fall 2014 Office Hours
Tuesday/Thursday 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Wednesday 2 - 4 p.m.
By appointment
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. She is the recipient of the NEA Fellowship, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. A new book (working title: “True Words”) is forthcoming in 2015.Research and Creative Activity Interests
Contemporary and classic fiction, literature of WWI, early colonization of New Mexico, Texas during the integration years, flamencoEducation
BA, Rice University
MFA, Vermont College
Scheduled Teaching
Fundamentals of Fiction, Fiction StudioAdditional Information
Fall 2014 Office Hours
Tuesday/Thursday 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Wednesday 2 - 4 p.m.
By appointment
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. She is the recipient of the NEA Fellowship, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. A new book (working title: “True Words”) is forthcoming in 2015.Research and Creative Activity Interests
Contemporary and classic fiction, literature of WWI, early colonization of New Mexico, Texas during the integration years, flamencoEducation
BA, Rice University
MFA, Vermont College