BIO

Sandra Gail Lambert writes fiction and memoir that is often about the body and its relationship to the natural world.

She is the author of My Withered Legs and Other Essays in which a seventy-year history of disability is the framework for tales of lesbian love, aging, and the body’s changing relationship to itself and the world. Along with the uncertainties, triumphs, and often slapstick humor of becoming a writer later in life, these essays are grounded in queer, crip, and climate politics.

Lambert is also the author of the Krause Essay Prize and Lammy-nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness. She’s written two novels: The Sacrifice Zone: An Environmental Thriller and The River’s Memory.

Her writing has been widely anthologized and has been accepted by a variety of journals including The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Orion, and The Paris Review.  She is an NEA Creative Writing Fellow and is the co-editor, along with Sarah Einstein, of the anthology Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival.   

Lambert lives with her wife in Gainesville, Florida—a home base for trips to her beloved rivers and marshes. 

She grew up a military brat which meant she lived a lot of places, but most of her childhood, except for a stint at the Warm Springs Polio Foundation, was spent in Norway. 

Lambert has always believed in books. She’d sneak the latest Nancy Drew open inside her elementary school math texts (which explains her shaky division skills), has read through whole libraries, and ended up running a feminist bookstore for the most of a decade. 

But it wasn’t until Sandra was well into her forties that she thought of herself as writer. At age sixty-two, her debut novel The River’s Memory was published, at sixty-six her memoir A Certain Loneliness, and at seventy-one The Sacrifice Zone and My Withered Legs.  

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