Sandy McIntosh

Poet

Oceanside, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Sandy McIntosh’s collections of poetry include Plan B: A Survivor’s Manual, Lesser Lights: More Tales from a Hamptons’ Apprenticeship, Obsessional, Poetry for Performance, A Hole in the Ocean: A Hamptons' Apprenticeship, Cemetery Chess: Selected and New Poems, Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death,), The After-Death History of My Mother, Between Earth and Sky (Marsh Hawk Press), Endless Staircase (Street Press), Earth Works (Long Island University), Which Way to the Egress? (Garfield Publishers), and two chapbooks: Obsessional (Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry) and Monsters of the Antipodes (Survivors Manual Books). His prose includes Firing Back, with Jodie-Beth Galos (Wiley), From A Chinese Kitchen (American Cooking Guild), and The Poets in the Poets-In-The-Schools (Minnesota Center for Social Research, University of Minnesota. His poetry and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Politico, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Nation, the Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. His original poetry in a film script won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. He has been Managing Editor of Confrontation magazine published by Long Island University and is Publisher of Marsh Hawk Press, Inc.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The After-Death History of My Mother (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005)
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Between Earth and Sky (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002)
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Endless Staircase (Street Press, 1991)
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Monsters of the Antipodes (Survival Manual Books, 1989)
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Sleepers Awake (Survival Manual Books, 1989)
Prizes won: 

Silvere Medal, Film Festival of the Americas (film script), Best American Poetry, John Steinbeck award (residency)

More Information

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Last update: Mar 25, 2022