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About Sandra Literary Artist
Today Sandra is an award winning writer, author, poet, and playwright, She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Absent Sisters(Dragonfly Press, 1994), and Imagining The World (Gateway Press, 1998). She also has a full length collection, The Six o’clock Siren, (Otter Bay books, 2009). Sandra is 1999 recipient of an Individual Artist Award in Poetry from The Maryland State Arts Council. Among her literary ventures over the almost 30 years she lived in Baltimore, Sandra hosted a literary salon (1987-1989) at her home on Madison Street, and also was one of the co-founders of the former Saltimbanquers Literary Salon at the Minas Gallery, also in Baltimore. Over the past 20 years she has read and performed her work for various audiences and organizations including: The Enoch Pratt Library Writer’s Live Series, The Philadelphia Free Library, The Poets and Composers Forum (For St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia), The Delaware Literary Society, St. Mary’s College, The Baltimore ARTSCAPE Festival, Café Montage, Louie’s Bookstore Café, The Metro Gallery, The Baltimore Book Festival, The American Cancer Society, Linfield College, The National College of Natural Medicine, Atticus Books, D.C. Arts Space, and The University of Maryland Medical Center, among many others.
Sandra’s work has been adapted & performed for the 1995 Washington DC Playwrights Festival, as well as the 2004 Page to Stage Festival at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Her poems have appeared in many journals including: The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, Dancing Shadow Review, The Pearl, Arts and Understanding, Coping with Cancer, The Oncologist, Baltimore City Paper, and Ars Medica ( in Toronto), among many others. In addition to her publications Sandra is also the lyricist for a song cycle, Musical Friends, in collaboration with Philadelphia composer, Paul Stoffer (ASCAP, 2001). Sandra has taught poetry workshops for special populations at The Community Living Room, and at The New Ventures Community Rehabilitation Program. Currently Sandra is completing her first stage play, The Lucky Spot Dance. Sandra holds an MFA in Writing (poetry), from Spalding University where she was awarded a partial scholarship based on artistic merit. She also holds graduate degrees in dramatic arts, (West Virginia University), and in social work, (University of Maryland).
Sandra’s work has been adapted & performed for the 1995 Washington DC Playwrights Festival, as well as the 2004 Page to Stage Festival at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Her poems have appeared in many journals including: The Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Baltimore Review, Dancing Shadow Review, The Pearl, Arts and Understanding, Coping with Cancer, The Oncologist, Baltimore City Paper, and Ars Medica ( in Toronto), among many others. In addition to her publications Sandra is also the lyricist for a song cycle, Musical Friends, in collaboration with Philadelphia composer, Paul Stoffer (ASCAP, 2001). Sandra has taught poetry workshops for special populations at The Community Living Room, and at The New Ventures Community Rehabilitation Program. Currently Sandra is completing her first stage play, The Lucky Spot Dance. Sandra holds an MFA in Writing (poetry), from Spalding University where she was awarded a partial scholarship based on artistic merit. She also holds graduate degrees in dramatic arts, (West Virginia University), and in social work, (University of Maryland).