Good Dirt
Lush, wry poems alive with dogs, daffodils, weather, justice, and the small things that refuse to stay small.
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Published works
Four books, four distinct weather systems: living-world poems, an intimate elegy, a first chapbook, and an environmental adventure for young readers.
2015—2026
Poetry · Young adult fiction · Kelsay Books · iUniverse
Four books in print
Dry-Docked in New Jersey
An intimate elegy written through terminal illness, caregiving, motherhood, anger, love, and the life left afterward.
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Cultured Pearls
A first chapbook of memory, character, human oddity, and lyric attention.
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The Ecowarriors
A Silver Nautilus-winning eco-adventure about danger, friendship, imagination, and environmental action.
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A Silver Nautilus Award—and work that keeps moving.
The Ecowarriors received a Silver Nautilus Book Award and an independent Kirkus review. Sandra’s poetry has appeared in North Carolina Literary Review, The RavensPerch, Clockhouse, and other literary publications.
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