Sandra Marchetti

Poet

Lisle, IL

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Website:

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Author's Bio

Sandra Marchetti is the author of Confluence, a debut full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays, including Heart Radicals (About Editions, 2018); Sight Lines (Speaking of Marvels Press, 2016); A Detail in the Landscape (Eating Dog Press, 2014); and The Canopy (MWC Press, 2012). Sandra’s poetry appears widely in River Styx, Poet Lore, Ecotone, Blackbird, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at The Rumpus, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, Pleiades, and other venues. Sandy completed her MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry at George Mason University and is the Coordinator of Tutoring Services at the College of DuPage, just outside of Chicago.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Aeolian Harp Anthology Volume II (Glass Lyre Press, 2017)

Sky + Sea (Porkbelly Press, 2017)

Full: An Anthology of Moon Poems (Two of Cups Press, 2016)

Hysteria (Lucky Bastard Press, 2016)

The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson University Press, 2016)

New Poetry from the Midwest (New American Press, 2014)

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland (Ice Cube Press, LLC, 2014)

Book:

Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015)

Chapbooks:

Heart Radicals (ELJ Publications, 2016)

The Canopy (Midwest Writing Center Press, 2012)

Journals:

Bone Bouquet

Boog City

Cellpoems

Cider Press Review

Cobalt Review

Connotation Press

Deep South Magazine

Ecotone

Escape Into Life

Extract(s)

Green Mountains Review

Hobart

Louisiana Literature

Nashville Review

Prick of the Spindle

Quiddity International Literary Journal

Redactions

Redux

Reunion: The Dallas Review

Sport Literate

Still

Stirring: A Literary Collection

Stone Highway Review

Subtropics

Sugar House Review

the museum of americana

THRUSH Poetry Journal

Word Riot

Prizes won:

Erin Elizabeth Smith selected Sandra's book, Confluence, to be published in Sundress Publications' 2015 catalog. Sandy won 2nd Prize in Prick of the Spindle's 2014 Poetry Open Competition for her poem, "One Secret." She also won Midwest Writing Center’s 2011 Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest for The Canopy. Sandy has served as a writer-in-residence at University of Southern Indiana, Millikin University, Asnuntuck Community College, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and an artist’s fellow at Vermont Studio Center in the summers of 2013 and 2015. Her manuscript, "Confluence," was also a quarterfinalist for Able Muse’s 2012 Book Award. She was a finalist in Mary Journal's 2015 Editors' Prize, Gulf Coast’s 2011 Poetry Prize and Phoebe's 2009 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Naperville, IL

Illinois

Raised in:

Naperville, IL

Illinois

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Last update: Jan 12, 2019