Sandra Stone (April 4, 1934 – February 27, 2018) was an Oregon-based visual and conceptual artist as well as a poet, playwright and author of literary fiction and nonfiction.

Life

Sandra Stone was born Alessandria Stone on April 4, 1934, in Portland, Oregon. She married Mel Peters in 1956 and changed her name to Sandra Peters. The couple had three children prior to their divorce. She had use Sandra Stone as her professional name. Sandra Stone has received more than 35 commissions from major architectural firms to create art for both public interiors and the landscape. She describes her work as "creating metaphor for space through architectural concepts, context, and literary text." She was awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Literary Arts Inc. In 2007 her writing won the

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in Poetry.http://www.danaawards.com/previous%20winners.htm In 2000 her 24-word letter was chosen from among 7,500 entries as the winner of a one-time national competition sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan and the US Postal Service. Her 1997 collection of poetry, ''Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Café'', was selected as the winner of a national manuscript competition. In 1998 Stone's book won the Oregon Literary Arts Book Award. Her work has appeared in ''

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'', ''

The New Republic ''The New Republic'' is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts. Founded in 1914 by several leaders of the progressive movement, it attempted to find a balance between "a liberalism centered in hum ...

'', ''International Poetry Review'', ''

JAMA ''The Journal of the American Medical Association'' (''JAMA'') is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association. It publishes original research, reviews, and editorials covering all aspects of biom ...

'', ''The Midwest Quarterly'', ''

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'', ''

The Southwest Review The ''Southwest Review'' is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States. The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderv ...

,'' and elsewhere. She had lived in

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, and sometimes in

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. She died in Portland, Oregon, on February 27, 2018, at the age 83.)

Awards

*2015 Oregon Book Award Finalist: Absurdist or, Is It? Angus L. Bowmer Award *2014 Artist's Repertory Theater: Awarded 501-C3 status for 3 inter-related comic operas *2013 Oregon Book Award Finalist: The Inmost House Memory Making Journeying Dwelling *2013 Omnidawn Publishing Featured Poet: Two Treaties on Ecstasy + Creative Bio *2012 Winner: Hunger Mountain: Philosophic Lyric * 201
Campbell Corner Philosophic Lyric
* 201
Lucille Medwick Award
* 2007

* 1998 Literary Arts Book Award for Poetry * 1997

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National Design Award for literary narrative in the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse. *1993 Winner: University of Washington Press: National Broadside Competition

Books

*A Sum of Whirligigs Poems of World Pain *The Inmost House Memory Making Journeying Dwelling *

Plays

*What Everything Is *POoF *An Imperfect Place to Dispose of Flies *Yes, Out

Composers

*John Vergin *Theresa Koon

Librettist

*Sandra Stone

Poems

"Snow Whippets," PSA Lucille Medwick Award

"For a Friend Who Decided Early to Stop Dialysis", ''JAMA''

Anthologies

* * * * * Aspects of Robinson

References

External links

* ttp://omnidawn.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/poem-feature-sandra-stone/ "Poetry Feature: Sandra Stone"
"Sandra Stone's personal website"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Sandra 1934 births 2018 deaths Writers from Portland, Oregon American women poets Jewish American writers Jewish poets 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women