Sandra Fluck

Writer, poet, and educator, Sandra Fluck graduated from U.C.L.A. with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English Literature. She also has a Master of Arts (Religion) from the Lancaster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. She has taught English Literature, Creative Writing, English Composition, and Technical Writing in colleges in California and Pennsylvania. Sandra is the creative force behind bookscover2cover.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar: a reading list from a new, powerful voice in fiction

November 9, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a new voice in fiction with the recent publication of her debut story collection, White Dancing Elephants. In her interview with bookscover2cover.com, Chaya notes that her work originates from the juxtaposition of “Hindu epics, ...

Chris Pellizzari and the influence of Federico García Lorca

October 19, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

Chris Pellizzari is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including most recently Good Works Review and Counterclock. He is a lifelong supporter of the Chicago ...

Last Night In Granada

October 8, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

“The magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with duende.” The narrative in Chris Pellizzarri’s novella, Last Night in Granada, moves along memory corridors that intersect and divert the logic of linear time. Like a prose poem that ...

Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World

September 6, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

Leading from the Roots: Nature-Inspired Leadership Lessons for Today’s World is a transformative book in the field of organizational leadership. In the Introduction and the following eleven chapters, Dr. Kathleen E. Allen delineates how leaders in ...

Reyna Marder Gentin, writer and author of “Unreasonable Doubts”

August 24, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

Reyna Marder Gentin grew up in Great Neck, New York. She attended college and law school at Yale. For many years, she practiced as an appellate attorney representing criminal defendants who could not afford private counsel. Reyna studies at the ...

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, writer and author of “White Dancing Elephants”

August 18, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

White Dancing Elephants is a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a physician and writer with work in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Electric Lit, The Millions, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review and ...

Farrah Fray and Her Poetic Journey

August 12, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

Farrah Fray is a writer and activist living in London. Growing up between London and Libya, she navigates in her work explorations of culture, displacement, feminism and identity with a focus on Libya and London. Although her poetry and prose has ...

Unreasonable Doubts

August 10, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

The cast of characters in Unreasonable Doubts by Reyna Marder Gentin could have stepped out of a Shakespearean play. Consider the lovers Liana Cohen and Jakob Weiss, the counselor Rabbi Jordan Nacht, the wise colleague Deborah (Deb) Levine, the ...

White Dancing Elephants

July 16, 2018 By Sandra Fluck

White Dancing Elephants is a finalist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards. Women take center stage in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut short story collection, White Dancing Elephants. As characters, these women find themselves in unyielding, ...

A Book List for Facilitating Workshops for Veterans

November 24, 2017 By Sandra Fluck

Leilani Squire is a published poet and author, CCA Certified Creativity Coach, and Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild. For the past seven years she has facilitated creative writing workshops for veterans and military families, culminating in the ...