Knauf, Sandra | Pikes Peak Library District

Birth Year (-Died Year)

1963

Birth City

Oakland

Birth State

Current Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Phone (Public)

(719) 473-9237

Email (Public)

sandra@sandraknauf.com

Author's Website

http://www.sandraknauf.com/

Occupation(s)

Writer and Publisher, Greenwoman Publishing, LLC

Biography

Sandra Knauf is the one-woman-show behind Greenwoman Publishing. Her books include her newest work Please Don't Piss on the Petunias: Stories about Raising Kids, Crops, and Critters in the City, the six-volume series Greenwoman (compilations of literary garden writing and art), her young adult fantasy novel, Zera and the Green Man, and an anthology of sexy gardening stories that she says is the feminist gardener answer to Fifty Shades of Grey--Fifty Shades of Green. She was a 2008-09 featured “Colorado Voices” columnist for The Denver Post and her humorous essays have appeared nationally in GreenPrints and MaryJanesFarm. She has also been a guest commentator on KRCC’s (NPR's southern Colorado affiliate) Western Skies radio show. Sandra lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her family, dogs, huge urban garden, and lots of books.

Awards/Honors

2019 - North Street Book Prize Finalist, Please Don't Piss on the Petunias

2015 - Microgrant Award from Pikes Peak Arts Council

2013 - Microgrant Award from Pikes Peak Arts Council

2011 - Grant award from Pikes Peak Community Foundation for work on Greenwoman magazine

2008-2009 - Selected as a Denver Post "Colorado Voices" featured columnist

2005 - Edited book A Taste for Gardening (2004), recipient of the Top National Award from the National Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc.

2002 - First Place, Creative Nonfiction, Paul Gillette Memorial Writing Contest

Education/Training

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Bachelor of Arts, English, 1991

Local Authors Genres

Biography/Memoir