Welcome to Sandra Lindow's Web Page

BIO:  Presently my work can be found onwww.strangehorizons.com, www.ravenelectrick.com, www.astropoetica.com, www.fables.org, and www.cleansheets.com.  In 2004 I won the Jade Ring for first prize in poetry from the Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association, and the Wisconsin Press Women's Award for Poetry in 2003 as well as the WFOP 2003 Triad Theme Contest.  Recently, I have had poems accepted by Kaleidoscope, Free Verse, Wisconsin Academy Review and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.  I have published five books of poetry: Rooted in the Earth, Heroic Housewife Papers, A Celebration of Bones, Revision Quest, Walking the Labyrinth, and Touched by the Gods.

For twenty-five years I worked as a Reading Specialist at the Eau Claire Academy, a treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents. I taught reading, writing and study skills. Since June of 2006 I have been semi-retired, teaching part-time at the University of Wisconsin—Stout as well as doing some free-lance writing and editing. I am married to Michael Levy who teaches English at the University of Wisconsin—Stout. He is an SF critic and writes reviews for Publisher's Weekly.  Send mail to Michael Levy at levym@uwstout.edu or see his web site at www.uwstout.edu/cas/english/levym/.

PUBLICATIONS:
Touched by the Gods: (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2008) "Touched by the Gods" tends to mean crazy but crazy can be pretty good. Some of these poems take a look at modern-day gods and goddesses. Others describe working, marriage and child-raising and the magical in everyday life—the visage of the virgin Mary burned on the bottom of a pressure cooker, animals with cruise control, a poet who reads entrails for H&R Block, a physicist who wears ultra-violet. $10.00

A Peace of the Valley:  Chippewa Valley Poets and Artists On Peace and War (Linden Leaf Press, 2005) This book came as a result of the Wisconsin Epidemic Peace Project Imagery Show. Profits from this book will be donated to the United Nations Children's Relief Fund.  $13.00 $6.00

Walking the Labyrinth:  Poetry of Conflict and Resolution  (Foothills Publishing, Oct. 2004) These poems explore conflict and the process of finding inner peace through connecting with the natural world as well as working through conflict with others.  Some poems are in response to the Desert Storm, 911 tragedy and to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  $13.00

Revision Quest (Lindenleaf Press, 1997) retells and revises old stories and folktales in an attempt to find meaning for those who often suffer in darkness.  Much of my inspiration for this volume came from my work with emotionally disturbed children at the Eau Claire Academy, a residential treatment center. $6.00

A Celebration of Bones (Jazz Police, 1996) uses bones as the primary image to symbolize what is buried and what eventually comes to light.   Poems cover  a very brief  history of life on earth from Precambrian times to the present.  A Celebration of Bones was named as the best small press release for the month that it was published.; SOLD OUT

The Heroic Housewife Papers (Pandora, 1990) was chosen by the Council for Wisconsin Writers as the best poetry collection published in 1990 by a Wisconsin writer.  It tells the story of a housewife with three preschool children who uses her homemaking skills to fight dragons.  Sometimes she has to take the kids along.  The dragons are all sexist and they say demeaning things to her about being a woman.  She is not dismayed and responds confidently via her Teflon-covered sword using skills learned from racquetball. $6.00

Rooted in the Earth  (Sand and Silk Publishers, 1989) tells the story of a family farm.   Told through the eyes of various family members, the history of  my grandparents' century farm is recalled and the family grieves when it becomes apparent that we may have to sell the farm when aging grandparents can no longer deal with the many problems of running it.  A complicating problem is Grandmother's Alzheimer's.  $6.00

Signed copies may be purchased from me postpaid. Mail a check to Sandra Lindow at my home address, including $1.51 shipping per book. Your books will arrive by first class mail.