Sandra Benitez

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Sandra Benitez
Born (1941-03-26) March 26, 1941 (age 83)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
EducationNortheast Missouri State University (BS, MA)
Notable awards

Sandra Benitez (born March 26, 1941, in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist.

Life

Sandra Benitez was born in Washington, D.C., and spent ten years of her childhood in El Salvador while her father was based there as a diplomat. She attended high school in Missouri from age 14 and subsequently graduated with a B.S. (1962) and M.A. (1974) from Northeast Missouri State University.[1]

In 1997 she was selected as the University of Minnesota Edelstein-Keller Distinguished Writer in Residence. In 1998 she did the Writers Community Residency for the YMCA National Writer’s Voice program. In the spring of 2001 she held the Knapp Chair in Humanities as Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of San Diego.[2][3]

Awards

Works

  • A Place Where the Sea Remembers. Simon & Schuster. 1993. ISBN 978-0-671-89267-8.
  • Bitter Grounds. Macmillan. 1998. ISBN 978-0-312-19541-0.
  • The Weight of All Things. Hyperion. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7868-8703-3. Sandra Benitez.
  • Night of the Radishes. Hyperion. January 2004. ISBN 978-0-7868-6400-3.
  • Bag Lady: A Memoir, The Triumphant True Story of Loss, Illness and Recovery. Benitez Books. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9774848-0-5.

Anthologies

References

  1. ^ Nicolás Kanellos (2003). Hispanic literature of the United States: a comprehensive reference. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-57356-558-5.
  2. ^ "Voices from the Gaps".
  3. ^ "Minnesota Author Biographies Project: Sandra Benitez". Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
  4. ^ "Hispanic Heritage Awards for Literature". Hispanic Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Sandra Benitez". United States Artists. Retrieved 2018-08-28.

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