Professor of English
Office
Moreland 314
Phone
541-737-1648
Email
msandor@oregonstate.edu
Education
M.F.A. University of Iowa 1984
B.A. University of California at Davis 1979
Areas of specialization
Short fiction writing, short story (analysis of form)
Selected publications
Books
Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime (stories), Sarabande Books (2003).
The Night Gardener, The Lyons Press (1999).
A Night of Music, Ecco Press (1989).
Stories and Essays
"Capacity," The Southern Review (2001).
"Orphan of Love," The Beacon Best of 1999.
"Waiting
for a Miracle: A Jew Goes Fishing," The Geordia Review
(Summer 1999).
"A River of One's Own," New York Times Sunday Magazine
(January 3, 1993).
"Icarus Descending," Pushcard Prize XIII. (1988)
"Still Life," Best American Short Stories. (1988)
"The Gittel," Best American Short Stories. (1985)
Grants, awards and honors
National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, 2004
Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction, 2000
Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, 1999