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Sandra Fenichel Asher has published 24 books for young readers (as Sandy Asher) and over two dozen plays, including Across the Plains; Dancing with Strangers; Emma; I Will Sing Life; Little Women: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy; Once, in the Time of Trolls; The Wise Men of Chelm and A Woman Called Truth (all Dramatic Publishing) and The Wolf and Its Shadows (Anchorage). Among her many honors are the AATE Distinguished Play Award, the IUPUI/Bonderman Award, an ASSITEJ Outstanding Play for Young Audiences citation, the Joseph Campbell Memorial Award presented by The Open Eye Theater, a National Endowment for the Arts grant in playwriting, AATE's Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished body of work in children's theater, the New England Theater Conference's Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award and an Aurand Harris Fellowship grant from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. Writer-in-residence at Drury University in Springfield, Mo., from 1986 to 2003, Asher now lives in Lancaster, Pa., with her husband, two cats and a dog. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and co-founder of the website USA Plays for Kids.
Visit Sandy Asher's website.
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