![]() Sandra is a six-time recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, The Bride’s House, True Sisters, A Quilt for Christmas, Hardscrabble and Someplace to Call Home. ![]() Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published 18 novels, including Westering Women, and four young adult books, the latest Someplace to Call Home. Benjamin Franklin Award, and Sacred Paint, a biography of artist Ned Jacob. They include The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Assn. While a reporter, she began writing the first of her nonfiction books. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. A journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. ![]()
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