Sandy Florian

Sandy Florian graduated in 2003 with an MFA from Brown’s Creative Writing Program in Fiction. For her thesis, she received Brown’s Francis Mason Harris Award for best book-length manuscript written by a female student. She taught Creative Writing and Literature at Roger Williams University and the University of Rhode Island and is a current candidate at the University of Denver for a PhD in English and Creative Writing. Her stories and excerpts of her novella have appeared or are forthcoming in the following books and journals: Square Lake, Encyclopedia, Beehive, Elixir Magazine, dANDelion, The Brooklyn Rail, Issues, Blastie, Women’s Work. She was also awarded the New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize for best story under 1500 words.