Sandy Florian was born in New York and raised in Latin America.  She is of Colombian and Puerto Rican descent.  She holds an MFA from Brown University's Creative Writing Program in Fiction.  At Brown, she was the recipient for the Francis Mason Harris Award for best book-length manuscript written by a woman.  She was also the recipient of the New Voices Sudden Fiction Prize in Cambridge.  She is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.  Her work appears in the following journals: Indiana Review, Bombay Gin, Shampoo, La Petite Zine, Washington Square Review, 14 Hills, elimae, New Orleans Review, eratio, Tarpaulin Sky, Gargoyle, 42 Opus, Copper Nickel, Upstairs at Duroc, Word For/Word, Segue, Versal, Horse Less Review, Identity Theory, The Encyclopedia Project, Elixir, dANDelion, The Brooklyn Rail, and others.  Visit her blog at http://boxingthecompass.blogspot.com