Born October 26, 1945, in Memphis, Tennessee, Scott Sanders received a bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1967 and a doctoral degree from Cambridge University in 1971. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1983-84; an Editor's Choice award from Booklist in 1985, for Hear the Wind Blow: American Folksongs Retold; the Penrod Award in 1986 for Stone Country; an award for creative nonfiction from Associated Writing Programs in 1987 for The Paradise of Bombs; a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award in 1988; an award for literacy excellence from the Kenyon Review in 1991; and other writing and teaching awards throughout the nineties. Sanders is currently employed as a full professor in the department of English at Indiana University. He has been the director of the Wells Scholars Program since 1997. Sanders' works in progress include two collections of stories, Dancing in Dreamtime and Gordon Milk Suite; Wolf Water, a novel; and House Made of Trees, a children's book. His other pursuits include bicycling, canoeing, carpentry, gardening, and hiking. He resides in Bloomington, Indiana.

Cambridge University

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Indiana University

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