Sandra DuguidSandra R. Duguid was born and raised in rural western New York, outside Batavia, and some of her poems derive from that rural setting. She received a B.A. from Houghton College. She has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a h.D. in English from the University of Buffalo, where she wrote her dissertation on the fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe. She has taught literature, composition, and creative writing at colleges in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area and at East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. She was Assistant Director of the Academic Support Center at Caldwell College in Caldwell, New Jersey, managing the Writing Center for seven years. She retired in summer, 2010, to devote more time to writing. She was awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was invited to read her poetry in a Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. She has also read her poems in colleges, several reading series in New Jersey, and in bookstores. One of her poems received honorable mention in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest, sponsored by Passaic County Community College, and her poem "Road to Emmaus" received a prize in a contest sponsored by Calvin College. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Henry Gerstman. Read More Read Less