Cathie SandstromCathie Sandstrom is a Los Angeles-based poet and writer. Her poems appear online at the Academy of American Poets (poets.org) and have been published in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Lyric, Ekphrasis and otherleading literary journals. Anthologies include Coiled Serpent and Wide Awake (Tia Chucha Press, 2016), among others. Of two nominations for a Pushcart prize, one was from The Southern Review. Her poem "You, Again" is in the artists' book collection at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles and at the University of Southern California. Two of her poetry manuscripts have been finalists in several prestigious book competitions. Her essay "Braiding the Dreamscape" was published online by the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis, and her essay "Getting Broken" appears in Master Class: The Poetry Mystique by Suzanne Lummis (Duende Books, Los Angeles, 2015). Her writing on veterans' issues was published online by the Huffington Post for six years. Presently, she writes for the National Veterans Foundation and is currently working on her second and third novels along with poetry. A military brat, she has never been "from around here" and still expects to hear from the Pentagon any day. Read More Read Less