Christy Sheffield Sanford

Christy Sheffield Sanford is an American new media writer, artist, editor, and project designer, who lives in Florida.

Life and career Before her web work starting in the 1990s, Sanford experimented with print forms.

trAce, in Nottingham-Trent University, was one of the first centers for new media writing. In 1998, as trAce's first virtual writer in residence, she designed and curated trAce's journal for new media literature, frAme Volumes 4 and 5, and wrote electronic literature works such as the Two Little Soldiers.

As an Alden B Dow Creativity Centre Fellow, at Northwood University, Michigan.

Works and publications Her small press books include The Italian Smoking Piece, The Cowrie Shell Piece, and the Hs: the Spasms of a Requiem, and Sur les Pointes, The Ballerina and the Sea Anemone, White Eagle Coffee Store Press; The Kiss, Radio Room Press; and The H's: the Spasms of a Requiem, Bloody Twin Press.

Red Mona (a multimedia work of text, images, and sound, based on Petit Soldat by Guy de Maupassant) Be Mine,” “Premium Assortment,” and “The Past and Her Muse: a Blazon” Peripheral Visions Daybook: (from Suspect to Offender and Back) Fusion Press, 2020 The Fan Cycle: Mallarmé In Late Summer (Inverted), 2023 and two NEA-Rockefeller sponsored grants.