Sandy Solomon

Sandy Solomon (born Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet.

Life Solomon was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from the University of Chicago.

She worked in Washington, DC for the National Urban Coalition and then directed two groups: the National Neighborhood Coalition and the Coalition on Human Needs. She received an MA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches at Vanderbilt University. The New Republic, The Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, and Partisan Review.

Her book, Pears, Lake, Sun, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1996.

Awards 1995 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Works

Individual poems include:

Book: