Sandra's new web site will also link to her WordSmithStars and SoulSongz blogs, as well as to her art galleries and shops.

SandraGouldFord.com

Sandra Gould Ford writes modern myths, stories about ordinary people facing extra-ordinary challenges. The web site will present writing that is intended to entertain, inform, inspire and encourage.

Sandra published her first novel with St. Martin's Press and has a culminating, MFA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. To celebrate artists and their potential, she founded Shooting Star Productions, Inc., a non-profit cultural organization that produced two major writers conferences and published Shooting Star Review, an international literary quarterly. She has also taught and exhibited in schools and for organizations nationwide.

She has received Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Dow Creativity Center. She has completed residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, Ragdale, Djerassi, Millay, Hedgebrook and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. In addition, her photography and quilts are in corporate, institutional, private and museum collections.

Sandra's First Novel
Diamonds in The Rough is the first of three, beautiful anthologies published from the Creative Writing Program that Sandra Gould Ford founded at the Allegheny County Jail. She intends to archive the anthologies on her site.

Sandra founded and published the Shooting Star Review for ten years. She intends to archive the literary magazine on her site.