Sandra Gail Lambert writes fiction and memoir that is often about the disabled body and its relationship to the natural world. She is an NEA Creative Writing Fellow. Her books, the first published when she was in her sixties, include the Krause Essay Prize and Lambda Literary Award-nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness, a novel The River's Memory, and The Sacrifice Zone, an Environmental Thriller, which was originally serialized on Substack. Her collection, My Withered Legs and Other Essays, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in Spring 2024. Her writing has been widely anthologized and published by The New York Times, The Sun, Orion, and The Paris Review. Lambert is a co-editor of the anthology Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival and has mentored for AWP's Writer to Writer Program. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.  

Website: www.sandragaillambert.com

Publications

• My Withered Legs and Other Essays , Crux: University of Georgia Press (March 2023)
• A Certain Loneliness: A Memoir , University of Nebraska Press (September 1, 2018)
• The River's Memory , Twisted Road Publications (July 28, 2014)
• The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller , Swamp Blossom Books (May 2023)

Awards

• 2018 NEA Creative Writing Fellow(2017)
• Krause Essay Prize Nomination(2019)
• Lambda Literary Award Nomination(2019)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction