Jim Sanderson's collection of short stories, Semi-Private Rooms (1994), won the Kenneth Patchen Prize for fiction in 1992, sponsored by Pig Iron Press. A collection of essays, A West Texas Soapbox, appeared in June of 1998 from the West Texas A&M State University Series from Texas A&M University Press. Sanderson's first novel, El Camino del Rio, won the 1997 Frank Waters Prize, and was published by The University of New Mexico Press. The University of New Mexico Press also published two other novels: Safe Delivery (2000) and La Mordida (2002). Nevin's History, a historical novel, will appear from Texas Tech University Press in April.
Sanderson has previously published about fifty short stories, essays, or scholarly articles. Sanderson has a Ph.D. in fiction writing from Oklahoma State University. For a living, he teaches fiction writing and American literature and film at Lamar University. He is the 2002 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer at Lamar University.
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