Sandra Hiortdahl
Education
- B.A., Washington College, 1985
- M.F.A., George Mason University, 1991
- M.A., University of Maryland, 2000
Teaching Areas
- The Afterlife in Literature and Culture
- Creative Writing
- Literature and Culture of the Eastern Shore
Associations
The John Gardner Society
Sandy Hiortdahl is a novelist, a sometime-poet and an award-winning teacher. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at George Mason University, a Master of Arts in English at University of Maryland College Park, and a Ph.D. in English from The Catholic University of America, where she earned distinction for her dissertation “John Gardner’s Grendel: Reinventing Beowulf.” She has taught English and creative writing at Washington College, University of Delaware, West Chester University, Catholic University, and East Tennessee State University, where she was a post-doctoral teaching fellow. She now serves as assistant professor of English at Northeast State Community College in Tennessee. You can read the first chapter of Sandy’s latest novel, Haley’s Comment, at www.sandyhiortdahl.com.
