Sandra BerrisSandra Berris was born in Chicago, but grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her degrees are from the University of Nebraska and Stanford University. She was co-founder and co-editor of Whetstone, a literary magazine that garnered eleven National Endowment fr the Arts/Illinois Arts Council literary awards as well as a 1995 American Literary Magazine Award for editorial excellence during its eighteen years. Her poems have appeared in many little magazines and she was a recipient of Prairie Schooner's Hugh J. Luke Poetry Prize. Her work was anthologized in Best of Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press, 2001). She lives in Carmel by the Sea, California. Read More Read Less