Meat and Bone

Sandra Feen is a member of the poetry troupe Concrete

Wink, with Rikki Santer and Chuck Salmons. She has been a

featured reader in venues in and out of Ohio for over 30 years

as well as a former co-facilitator for several Columbus, Ohio

reading series. In addition, she performs work by Holocaust

writers in Susan Millard Schwarz's Anahata Music Project. A

member of the Ohio Poetry Association, Bistro Poets, former

associate editor of Pudding Magazine and former director of

the Ohio Poetry Therapy Writers' Group, Sandy has a BFA in

Creative Writing and a BS in English Education from Bowling

Green State University, as well as an MA in Literature from

Wright State University. She was one of twelve teachers selected

for a National Endowment of the Arts first "Change Course"

program through Wright State University's Institute on Writing

and Its Teaching. Her most recent publications include 2019's

The Gasconade Review's Storm A'Comin'! and The National

Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. We Are Beat 2019 Anthology.

A collection of her poems was named finalist for The Lascaux

Review's 2018 Lascaux Poetry Prize. Her book, Fragile Capacities:

School Poems (NightBallet Press 2018) -- nominated for the

Ohioana Book Award--highlights her 32-year teaching career

in an urban school system. The poem "Palms Monday" was

nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Grove City, Ohio.