Chivas Sandage

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

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Author's 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

Education:

Vermont College of Fine Arts–Writing MFA

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:

Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate (Prometheus Books, 2004)

Journals:

Daily Hampshire Gazette

Drunken Boat

Hartford Courant

Ms. Magazine

Poetry

Anthologies:

Morning Song: Poems for New Parents (St. Martin's Press, 2011)

Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (University of Iowa Press, 2006)

Book:

Hidden Drive (Antrim House, 2012)

Journals:

Artful Dodge

Evergreen Review

Naugatuck River Review

Upstreet

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

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

LGBTQ

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Little Rock, AR

Arkansas

Raised in:

Houston , TX

Texas

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Last update: Jul 20, 2022