Linda Sands is the editor and founder of scratch, a literary anthology of quarterly contest stories and poetry. Her award-winning essays and short fiction can be found in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Gwinnett Daily Post, Byline, The Duck & Herring Co, venuszine, zygote in my coffee, BigCityLit, oculartravel, espressofiction, Divine Caroline, NPR’s I Believe, Europe From a Backpack, Skirt! Magazine, Big Water, Weird Year, Moronic Ox, Dogplotz, and more, including a variety of travel pieces.

As an agented novelist and prolific working writer, Linda believes in the power of the written and spoken word and knows anyone who feels the same needs time to explore that power, and quiet space to allow creativity to flourish.