Brett Alan Sanders is a writer, translator, and teacher living in Tell City, Indiana. He teaches Spanish (and sometimes English) at Perry Central Junior-Senior High School, where since the 2004-05 school year he has also sponsored an extracurricular literary club and helped launch the student literary journal The Jolie Rouge. He has studied Spanish and English at Indiana University and is completing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana, where he is also co-winner of the 2005 Louis Schewe Essay Award. He is the second-place winner of Sunstone’s 2006 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest and has just completed work on his Argentine travel memoir, Journeys and Digressions, and a collection of short fiction, No One Assured In God.
Sanders is also a contributing writer at Tertulia Magazine where he writes a column, “Arte Retórica,” for “Tertullian’s Blog.” He also contributes regularly to New Works Review and The Quill & Ink, and has also published original work in River Walk Journal, Passport Journal, and in print at such places as Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Sunstone, The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies , and Insights, a publication of the John Dewey Society. His Young Adult novella A Bride Called Freedom was published in 2003 in a bilingual edition by Ediciones Nuevo Espacio; in 2005, at the literary / historical conference “In the Times of Eduarda and Lucio V. Mansilla” which was sponsored by the Junta Provincial de Historia de Córdoba (Argentina), he presented a reading – subsequently published by that organization – from the Spanish-language translation.
His translations from the Spanish have appeared online and in various print journals in the U.S., Canada, and England, and now in Host Publication’s bilingual edition of María Rosa Lojo’s Awaiting the Green Morning. More is forthcoming in an anthology edited by Marjorie Agosín and scheduled for publication in 2008 by Wings Press.
If you have any questions, Sanders can be reached at this email address
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Brett Alan Sanders
Birth: November 21, 1958
Profession: Teacher / Freelance Writer and Literary Translator
Home: Tell City, Perry County, Indiana
Family: Married; three grown children, one grandchild
E-mail: brettalansanders@gmail.com
EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE
Edgewood High School, Ellettsville, Indiana – Graduated May 1977.
Argentina Rosario Mission – Served as a religious ambassador between 1978 and 1980; more significantly, gained a basic fluency in Spanish and started a love affair with Argentine culture, history, and literature.
Indiana University, Bloomington – Graduated August 1988: BA in Spanish, minor in English; teacher certification in 1990.
University of Southern Indiana, Evansville – in progress: Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS), 2000-present.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
English / ESL teacher with Houston (Texas) Independent School District, 1990-91.
Spanish / English teacher at Perry Central Jr.- Sr. High School, Leopold, Indiana, 1991-present.
HONORS / PRESENTATIONS
Winner of the 1987 Ellen Wilson Memorial Award, National Society of Arts and Letters, Bloomington Indiana Chapter.
Honorable Mention in the 1987 Myrtle Armstrong Undergraduate Fiction Prize, Indiana University.
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Departmental Award, Indiana University, 1988.
Presenter, “Between the Fire and My Heart” (essay), at the 1994 Chicago Sunstone Symposium.
Co-winner of the 2005 Louis Schewe Essay Award, University of Southern Indiana.
Presenter, from the Spanish-language translation of A Bride Called Freedom (novella), at the July 2005 literary / historical congress “En tiempos de Eduarda y Lucio V. Mansilla” in Córdoba (city and province), Argentina. Proceedings of the congress published in September 2005 by the sponsoring Junta Provincial de Historia de Córdoba.
Second-place winner of the 2006 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest.
MEMBERSHIPS / POSITIONS
Co-editor, The Whole Press, youth supplement to The Herald-Telephone, Bloomington, Indiana, 1975-77.
Columnist, “Talk of the County,” in the Perry County News, Tell City, Indiana, 1992-94.
Member, Association of Mormon Letters, 2003-present.
Faculty advisor for Perry Central Jr.-Sr. High School literary magazine (The Jolie Rouge; originally: The Black Pearl), 2004-05 school year to present.
Contributing writer and blogger at Tertulia Magazine, 2006-present.
July 1, 2005, Córdoba, Argentina: Brett reads from Sebastián Bekes's translation of a passage from A Bride Called Freedom.