Sandi Sonnenfeld
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Sandi Sonnenfeld is the author of the memoir, This Is How I Speak (Seattle: Impassio Press), an intimate and entertaining portrait of a dancer turned writer trying to negotiate creativity, the narrative craft, love, dogmatic deconstructionists, a dangerous sexual assault, a bad therapist and finding her own voice during her first year at one of the nation's top graduate creative writing programs. Her short stories and personal essays have appeared in more than 30 literary magazines and anthologies.
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Sandi received her MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Washington where she was the recipient of the Loren D. Milliman Writing Fellowship and subsequently named a Celebration Author by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, which recognizes those writers whose work merits special attention. More recently, she was named the winner of the Dream On Scholarship to attend the Cape Cod Story Summit. For the past eight years, Sandi has been working on a 450-page historical novel set in 17th-century Moscow, which takes a long time when you also have to earn money, care for a chronically ill spouse, and recreate a time and place in which a year is 10 months long, a day lasts 18 hours, and the protagonist and her five sisters are forbidden to study, marry, bear children or appear in public. Sandi resides in Poughkeepsie, New York with her husband and two of the world's most perfect cats.
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Website: https://authorsandisonnenfeld.com
Winning Entry: Pervert
Contest Won: Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest 2023, Honorable Mention
