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Short Bio
Sandra Benitez is Puerto Rican and Midwestern by heritage.
She spent her youth in Mexico, El Salvador and Missouri.
Benitez is the author of NIGHT OF THE RADISHES, published
by Hyperion in January, 2004, THE WEIGHT OF ALL THINGS,
a Book Sense 76 pick and a Star Tribune Talking Volumes
selection, BITTER GROUNDS, winner of an American Book Award
and A PLACE WHERE THE SEA REMEMBERS, which won a Barnes
and Noble Discover Award and the Minnesota Book Award. Her
work has been translated into six languages. Benitez's novels
are popular selections of book clubs, both local and around
the country, and frequently are included on high school
and university reading curriculums.
Benitez is also a creative writing teacher and speaker.
She is a past Keller-Edelstein Distinguished Writer in Residence
at the University of Minnesota, and was a recipient of the
Knapp Chair in Humanities at the University of San Diego.
Among other awards, Benitez has won a McKnight Award of
Distinction in Fiction as well as a Bush Fellowship and
the 2004 National Hispanic Heritage Award Honoree for Literature.
In addition, Hispanic Business Magazine listed Benitez as
one of the 100 Influential Hispanics of 2004.
Benitez's first work of non-fiction, bag lady: A Memoir,
was published in March, 2006. Later that year she
received one of the first United States Artists Awards and
was named a USA Gund Fellow. She was also named the National
Great Comebacks Award winner by ConvaTec and the Crohn's and
Ulcerative Colitis Foundation of America at a ceremony in
Washington, D.C.
Benitez lives with her husband, Jim Kondrick, in Edina, Minnesota.
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