Sandra Scofield is the author of several novels, including Beyond Deserving and A Chance to See Egypt, the recipient of a Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction. She has also written The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer, as well as two memoirs, Occasions of Sin and Mysteries of Love and Grief , an excerpt of which won First Place in Narrative’s 2014 Spring Story Contest. A Texas native and an avid landscape painter, Scofield divides her time between Missoula, Montana, and Portland, Oregon.
Photograph by Mary Economidy.