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Chivas Sandage [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
US
Bio: 

Chivas Sandage (SHEV-is SAN-dij) is at work on THE WIND BLEW THROUGH US: Love, Murder, & Justice in Texas, forthcoming in hardcover from the University of Texas Press. She is a digital columnist at Ms. Magazine and her column, Ms. Muse, features contemporary feminist poets as well as essays on the intersection of poetry, politics, and our lives. Her essays and poems have appeared in the Texas Observer, Hartford Courant, The Rumpus, Salmagundi, Southern Humanities Review, and Ms. Magazine (print), among others. 

https://www.csandage.com [2]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
@ChivasSandage
Born in: 
Little Rock, AR
Arkansas
Raised in: 
Houston , TX
Texas
Website: 
https://csandage.com [3]
Prizes won: 
  • Winner of the 2021 Claire Keyes Poetry Award, judged by poet Afaa Michael Weaver, for a group of 8 poems
  • Finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s 2020 Artist Fellowship Program and awarded a $1,500 artist grant for work on a narrative nonfiction book
  • Finalist for the Georgia Review’s 2020 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, judged by poet Ilya Kaminsky 
  • Finalist for the 2018 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest
  • Runner-up for the 2017 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and received an award and publication
  • Finalist for the 2017 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award
  • Two poems received national awards in the 2014 Provincetown Outermost Poetry Contest judged by Marge Piercy
  • Finalist for the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Poetry
Education: 
Vermont College of Fine Arts–Writing
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Any
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