Sandra A Hunter

Sandy (writing as: Sandra A Hunter) has always lived at the edges of ocean and forest in the Pacific Northwest, so it came naturally to have a sentient forest as a major character in her Elanraigh series (YA/Adult High Fantasy) beginning with The Guardian Forest (published 2019) and its sequel A Scourge of Shadows ( coming 2023)

Similarly, the Dragon Heir series, beginning with Daughter of Earth & Fire, The Fledgling (published 2020) takes place in the mountains and river valleys of the Pacific Northwest.

The Guardian Forest (first published by Caliburn Press as Elanraigh: The Vow) was awarded the Dante Rossetti Award (2014), First in Category, Young Adult High Fantasy, from Chanticleer Book Reviews.

Sandra’s short story, And the Coyotes Sang, won Spinetingler’s Dark Fiction Writing Competition; and she has been published in On Spec, and poetry in Gaslight, Lynx and Women & Recovery.

Sandra’s a member of SF Canada, The Burnaby Writers Society, and W.I.P. (a Vancouver Island writers group).

She’s a “fair weather” kayaker, and a lousy gardener with a ready sense of humour and an optimistic outlook (a good thing, when you’re a writer). She enjoys time spent either on her patio, or in her office, laptop at hand, a glass of wine and a view of either ocean or coastal mountains— and being spirited away by her characters.