Lisa Sandlin has spent most of her life in Texas and New Mexico. She earned a B.A. at Rice University and an M.F.A. at Vermont College. She has taught for sixteen years, the last ten at Wayme State College, where she is now a professor.

She is the author of two collections of short fiction from Cinco Puntos Press: "The Famous Thing About Death" and "Message to the Nurse of Dreams." The latter book won both the Violet Crown Award from the Austin Writers League and the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Best Book of Fiction 1997. Ms. Sandlin's third collection, "In the River Province," was published by Sothern Methodist University Press in 2004. She is a co-editor of "Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace" from Backwaters Press. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Story Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Best of the West and other literary magazines. Ms. Sandlin is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a Dobie Paisano fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and has had the great pleasure of listening to Broadway actor Julie White read her work read at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Alley Theatre in Houston.