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Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1941
• Where—Washington, DC, USA
• Reared—in Mexico and El Salvador
• Education—B.A., M.A., Northeast Missouri State Univ. (USA)
• Awards—American Book Award
• Currently—lives in Edina, Minnesota, USA
Sandra Benitez was born in Washington, D.C., and spent her childhood and early adulthood in Mexico and El Salvador. She then moved to the United States and received both an under-graduate and master's degree from Northeast Missouri State University.
She published her first novel, A Place Where the Sea Remembers, when she was 52. She lives with her husband in Edina, Minnesota. (From the publisher.)