Sandy Longhorn

Sandy Longhorn is a poet and college professor who teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. Her poems often draw on the Midwestern and Great Plains landscapes of her youth in Iowa. Her debut, Blood Almanac, won the 2005 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her second collection, The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths, won the 2013 Jacar Press Full-Length Poetry Book Contest. Her third, The Alchemy of My Mortal Form, won the 2014 Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press.