About the Author:
Puerto Rican and Midwestern by heritage, Sandra Benítez spent her youth in Mexico, El Salvador and Missouri. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Chariton Review and A View From the Loft. A Place Where the Sea Remembers, published by Coffee House Press, was her first book. She currently lives in Edina, Minnesota, with her husband.
Benítez has received a Loft-McKnight Award of Distinction for fiction, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant as well as a 1992 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. She was the Hispanic Mentor for The Loft Inroads Program from 1989 to 1992. In the Spring of 2001, she held the Knapp Chair in Humanities as Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of San Diego. She is also is the recipient of the 2004 National Hispanic Heritage Award Honoree for Literature. In December 2006, Benitez received one of the first United States Artists Awards, being named a USA Gund Fellow.
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