Sandy Solomon
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Solomon was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from the University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago
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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
Johns Hopkins University
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and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College
Warren Wilson College is a private four-year work college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina, United States near Asheville. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad," which requires every student to work an on-campus job, perform at least one hundred...
. She teaches at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
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Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, 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
University of Pittsburgh Press
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in 1996. She held fellowships from the Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, in 1997-8 and 1998-9.
She participated in Poets Against the War.