From WikipediaSandra Stone is a writer, visual, and conceptual artist working in various genres. She has received more than 35 commissions from architectural teams to create art for both public interiors and the landscape. She specializes in creating metaphor for space through architectural concepts, context, and literary text.She has been awarded fellowships from Bread Loaf, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Literary Arts Inc. In 2007 her writing won the Dana Award in Poetry. In 2000 her 25-word letter was chosen from among 7,500 entries as the winner of a one-time national competition sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Portland and the US Postal Service. Her 1997 collection of poetry, Cocktails with Breughel at the Museum Café, was selected as the winner of a national manuscript competition. In 1998 Stone's book won the Oregon Literary Arts Book Award.Her work has appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Republic, International Poetry Review, JAMA, The Midwest Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, The Southwest Review, and elsewhere.She lives in Portland, Oregon, and sometimes in New York City. Less