Brett Alan Sanders is a writer, translator, and teacher living in Tell City, Indiana. He contributes regularly to New Works Review, Tertulia Magazine, and The Quill & Ink (www.quillandink.netfirms.com ), and has also published original work in River Walk Journal ( www.riverwalkjournal.org), Passport Journal (www.passportjournal.org ), and in print at such places as Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Sunstone, The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies , and Insights, a publication of the John Dewey Society. His personal memoir "Dancing With Coyote" is featured in the December 2006 issue of Tertulia Magazine , where his new column "Arte Retórica" also appears in "Tertullian's Blog" (www.tertuliamagazine.com).
His Young Adult novella A Bride Called Freedom was published in 2003 in a bilingual edition by Ediciones Nuevo Espacio (< www.editorial-ene.com>); in 2005, he presented a reading from the Spanish-language text at the literary / historical conference "In the Times of Eduarda and Lucio V. Mansilla," sponsored by the Junta Provincial de Historia de Córdoba (Argentina) and subsequently published by that organization. He is also co-winner of the Louis Schewe Essay Award at the University of Southern Indiana and second-place winner of Sunstone's 2006 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest.
His translations from the Spanish have appeared in various journals in the U.S., Canada, and England, most recently in Hunger Mountain, Contemporary Verse 2, PRISM International, and The Antigonish Review. His translation of Argentine writer María Rosa Lojo's poetry collection Awaiting the Green Morning (Esperan la mañana verde) has just been accepted, by the very prestigious Host Publications, for publication in a bilingual edition. Prior to the book's launching, the publisher will feature eight of those poems in the September 2007 issue of their literary journal The Dirty Goat.
