Judy Sandler

Panelist: Writing the Body: An author panel on chronic illness and disability

Judy Sandler is a writer and educator living in mid-coast Maine. She is the creative non-fiction editor of The Awakenings Review. Sandler holds an MLA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Stonecoast, at the University of Southern Maine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times’s “Tiny Love Stories,” The Atticus Review, Brevity Blog, Pangyrus and others. She is the author of What Kind of Mother: A reckoning (West Virginia University Press, Connective Tissue Series, Sept. 8, 2026).