Sande's Bio
After nearly two decades as a scriptwriter and video/film producer for Fortune 500 companies, Sande Boritz Berger returned to her first passion writing both fiction and non-fiction full time.
Her short stories and essays have been published in The Rambler Magazine, Every Woman Has a Story by Warner Books, Ophelia's Mom by Crown Publishing, Aunties: Thirty-five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother by Ballantine and she has been a frequent contributor to the best-selling anthology series: Chocolate For Women published by Simon and Schuster's Fireside Books. Berger is a frequent contributor to Cup of Comfort, another best-selling series by Adam's Media and has written for their newest edition, Raging Gracefully. Her essay "Days of Bloom" is featured in Adam's, My Teacher, My Hero.
Her short fiction and poetry have been published by the Southampton Review, Confrontation Literary Review, and Tri-Quarterly Magazine Issue #126: a short story based on her first novel entitled "A Split-Level Life." Other writing has appeared in Proteus, Reflections, Thirteen Magazine, The Spirit That Moves Us, and several small presses, magazines and newspapers, including the East Hampton Star. An award winning poet, she received first place honors in two consecutive years for her poems: Tracks and Projects at Long Island University's CW Post College, in a presentation by poet Kenneth Koch. Her short story, "The Sweetness" was awarded Third Prize in Moment Magazine's 2006 fiction contest, judged by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Sande has completed two novels. A 70's suburban story of a double divorce called "Split-Level", and a family saga entitled "The Sweetness" inspired by true events. The latter was a semi-finalist in Amazon's 2010 Breakthrough Novel Awards.
She has taught creative writing as a volunteer at NYU's Medical Center Rusk Institute's pediatric division. Berger has recently completed an MFA in Writing and Literature at Stony Brook Southampton College.
She lives with her husband in Manhattan and Bridgehampton and has two daughters.
Member:
International Women's Writing Guild
Writer's Alliance of the East End
Women's National Book Association