Sandra Fees (she/her) is the author of two chapbooks, The Temporary Vase of Hands (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Moving, Being Moved (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her poems have been published in The Comstock Review, Whale Road Review, Moon City, and Witness, among other journals. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 Frontier Open, and won The Ekphrastic Review’s 2022 Cat Contest. She has been a finalist in Witness’s 2022 Literary Awards, Breakwater’s 2023 Peseroff Prize, and Sweet: A Literary Confection’s 2022 Prize. Her work was also a semifinalist in Nimrod’s 2021 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize and Crab Creek Review’s 2022 Annual Prize, and received honorable mention in The Common Ground Review’s 2021 Poetry Contest. Her poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, as well as receiving a Best of Net nomination. She is a past poet laureate of Berks County (2016-2018).
In addition to poetry, she writes creative nonfiction with a piece forthcoming in The Citron Review. Her poetry book reviews have been published by Tupelo Quarterly and The Laurel Review. She is president of Berks Bards, which hosts a local monthly featured poet and open mic series in Reading, Pennsylvania, as well as a poetry reader for The Common Ground Review.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Shippensburg University, a Master of Arts degree from Syracuse University where she studied creative writing, and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Lancaster Theological Seminary. A Unitarian Universalist minister, she resides in southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, Christopher Keith, and tortoiseshell cat, Belle.
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