![]() Award, and a four-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. In addition, she was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Assn. ![]() Sandra is the recipient of the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies, and two-time winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award, for The Chili Queen and Tallgrass. Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published eight novels, including Prayers For Sale. ![]() They include Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award, and The Quilt That Walked to Golden, recipient of the Independent Publishers Assn. While a reporter, she began writing the first of ten nonfiction books. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny-stock scandals to hard-rock mining, western energy development to contemporary polygamy. ![]() Sandra’s novels with their themes of loyalty, friendship, and human dignity have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and have been optioned for films.Ī journalism graduate of the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. Description: Award-winning author SANDRA DALLAS was dubbed “a quintessential American voice” by Jane Smiley, in Vogue Magazine. ![]()
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