Sandy Longhorn was born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1971 and received her BA in English from the College of St. Benedict (MN) in 1993. In 2003 she received an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.  Her first book, "Blood Almanac" won the 2005 Anhinga Prize for Poetry.  Recent poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Connecticut Review, Free Verse, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Midwest Quarterly, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere.  Currently, she teaches at Pulaski Technical College and lives in Little Rock, AR.