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Sandy Tritt is a writer, editor and speaker. The founder and CEO of Inspiration for Writers, an editing and critiquing service for aspiring writers, she has edited hundreds of manuscripts. She serves on the editorial staff of Rosedog.com and Author-me.com, and currently acts as the publication consultant for Confluence Literary Magazine. Each month she contributes the feature article for the Publishing New Writers Newsletter (published by Cook Communications, Chicago) and an "Elements of Craft" article for the Romance Writer's of Australia Newsletter. She is president emeritus of West Virginia Writers, Inc., the state's largest writing organization, and past president of the Ohio Valley Literary Group. She was the recipient of the 2002 Artsbridge Arts Award for Fiction. |
Sandy frequently speaks, reads and gives workshops at writer
conferences, educational functions and regional workshops. She
taught creative writing for the Jackson County Board of Education
and is on the board of directors of the Mid Ohio Valley Academy
of Fine Arts. She has given public readings of her fiction at
libraries, workshops, schools, colleges, conferences and other
gatherings as requested. Most recently, she has led workshops
at the West Virginia Writers Conference, the West Virginia Book
Festival, the Alabama Writers Conclave, the Appalachian Writers
Association (Bristol, Tennessee), and Marietta (Ohio) College's
Tim O'Brien's Fiction Weekend.
Living the Legacy, Sandy's first novel, won second place
in the 1998 West Virginia Writer's Novel Competition, and an
excerpt won first place in the 1998 People's Choice Awards. Sandy's
short stories have received many awards and have been published
in literary magazines and local journals such as Gambit, Confluence,
West Virginia United Methodist, Allegheny Echoes, Mountain Voices,
The Northwestern, and Mountain Echoes, in which she was the July
2004 featured writer. In addition, she has published Everything
I Know (Headline Books), Inspiration for Writers Tips and Techniques
Workbook, and seven technical manuals (Phoenix Software, Atlanta,
GA). She has ghostwritten one award-winning screen play and two
memoirs.
Sandy lives in a busy household with her husband Butch and her
three teenage daughters. Roxanne, 21, is beginning her junior
year at George Mason University, Pam, 18, is a freshman at Marshall
University, and Stacy, 17, is a junior at Parkersburg High School.
Completing the family are Jessie the psychotic collie, Murphy
the abandoned kitten and several "adopted" children
who hang out at Sandy's house. Sandy's home is the gathering
place for children of all ages, but she embraces the energy and
activity, and yes, even the confusion.
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