Robert Edison Sandiford (born 1968) is a

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writer and

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. Born in

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, he co-founded with the poet Linda M. Deane '' ArtsEtc'', a periodical devoted to culture in

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. In

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, his short story "Reckoning" was awarded the Barbados Governor General's Award for Literary Excellence.

Bibliography

Fiction

*''12 X 93'' — 1993 (with

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) *''Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: Stories'' — 1995 *''The Tree of Youth and Other Stories'' — 2005 *''Intimacy 101: Rooms & Suites'' — 2013 *''And Sometimes They Fly: A Novel'' — 2013 *''Fairfield: The Last Sad Stories of G. Brandon Sisnett'' — 2015

Graphic novels

*''Attractive Forces'' — 1997 (with Justin Norman) *''Stray Moonbeams'' — 2002 (with Justin Norman &

Brandon Graham Brandon Lee Graham (born April 3, 1988) is an American football defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Eagles in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft with the thirteenth selection ...

) *''Great Moves'' — 2010 (with

Geof Isherwood Geof Isherwood (born December 4, 1960) is an American painter, sculptor and comic book illustrator. Career Much of Isherwood's early work was done for Marvel Comics, including such titles as ''Silver Surfer'', ''Conan the Barbarian'', '' Darede ...

)

Non-fiction

*''Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle'' — 2003

External links

Robert Edison Sandiford
- (Biography) Writers' Union of Canada

1968 births Canadian male short story writers Black Canadian writers Canadian people of Barbadian descent Living people Writers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-writer-stub