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.

Leilani Squire on Veterans’ Writing and “The Storytellers”

October 23, 2017 By Sandra Fluck Author Interviews

Leilani Squire is home when she is swimming in the waters of the island of her birth, O`ahu. She is a writer, published poet and author, teacher and CCA Certified Creativity Coach, Associate Member of The Dramatist Guild and facilitates creative ...

The Scent Of My Skin: From Libya, London and every world I live in

October 16, 2017 By Sandra Fluck Poetry

There is a short poem of seven lines in The Scent Of My Skin: From Libya, London and every world I live in that embodies the metaphorical and literal edifice the poet Farrah Fray builds in her collection of fifty-two poems. The poem “Sometimes” goes ...

Allotrope, a novella

October 8, 2017 By Sandra Fluck Novella

The novella is typically between twenty to forty thousand words, longer than a short story, shorter than a novel, and in the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, “long enough for a reader to inhabit a world or a consciousness.” It is focused on one ...

Liu Xiaobo: Tyranny, Freedom of Conscience, and the Incompleteness of the Individual

September 20, 2017 By Sandra Fluck

“The unique thing about man is that he is capable of being aware of his tragic fate; he can be aware of the fact that he will die; he can be aware that the ultimate meaning of the universe and life itself is unknowable. A nation that is without an ...

Steve Jones and a Nature-inspired book list

August 4, 2017 By Sandra Fluck

There is no doubt that the author Steve Jones found inspiration for his two recently published books, Nature Based Leadership: Lessons for Living, Learning, Serving, and Leading, and Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading: Revealing and Applying ...

Dera Williams reading recommendations: research, writing, and influential authors

June 27, 2017 By Sandra Fluck

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Steve Jones on Nature’s Inspiration in Leadership and Life

June 25, 2017 By Sandra Fluck

Now 44 years beyond his bachelor's degree in forestry, Steve is devoting his life to championing the cause of Nature-Inspired Learning and Leading. Steve founded the Nature Based Leadership Institute at Antioch University New England in 2015 while ...

Nature Based Leadership: Living, Learning, Serving, and Leading

June 12, 2017 By Sandra Fluck

Stephen B. Jones offers a way of “being in” the natural world that connects us to the higher goals of insight, purpose, and action. In his book Nature Based Leadership: Living, Learning, Serving, and Leading, published in December 2016, Jones engages ...

No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems

June 6, 2017 By Sandra Fluck Non-fiction

Note to the Reader: This review was written before the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the renowned Chinese writer Mo Yan on October 11, 2012. The state-run news media praised it as an affirmation that China’s cultural accomplishments ...