Marjorie Sandor is the author of the book of essays The Night Gardener (1999) and the book of stories A Night of Music (1989). Her short fiction has been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize and The Best of Beacon, and has appeared in numerous literary journals. Awards include a 1998 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Fiction and the 2000 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. Sandor teaches creative writing and literature at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.