Authors for Literacy, Turning Pages SC, and numerous community partners in Lexington and Richland County of South Carolina come together annually to raise money for adult literacy. Join us as we highlight the incredible talent of authors supporting this event. To book your table space or sponsor the event, head over to Authors for Literacy.
Sandra Pound is a retired educator and prolific writer who loves traveling, raising day-lilies and peacocks, and visiting with her grandchildren.
Sandra’s love of writing dates back to preschool years. A significant event of preschool is a memory of holding a sheet of paper and thinking it was the most wonderful thing in the world. Another was having her teacher present her with a New Testament with her name inscribed inside inside. She says it was the first time she had seen her name. And, thus, these events set her life in motion: she would become a writer.
“All my life I have been a prolific writer—not a successful one, but a writer who could not stop writing,” says Sandra. “In my twenties, I wrote for the two Lexington County newspapers regularly and made first page once. Over fifty articles have appeared in educational, religious, gardening journals and Bluefish Digest. As an educator, I earned National Board Certification in English and a PhD in Language and Literacy. Over time I presented at numerous local, state, and national teacher conferences.”
Sandra’s published works include:Â
- The Angels’ Greatest Message
- Tammy
- Money, A Novel
- Six Days in Paradise
- Keaton’s Carrots
- Short Stories of a Southern, Middle-Class, Contented, White Woman
- A Lifetime of Verse
- Teaspoons of Wisdom.Â
“Cancer has been a wayside of my life, occurring twice over the years, but,” Sandra reflected. “It does not define me. see myself as a writer.”
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you.
Isaiah 26:3
