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 the Lammy-nominated memoir A Certain Loneliness (University of Nebraska Press/2018) and a novel, The River’s Memory.  She is a 2018 NEA Creative Writing Fellow and a nominee for the Krause Essay Prize. Her current novel, The Sacrifice Zone, is serialized on Substack.

Her writing has been widely anthologized and has also been accepted by a variety of journals including The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Orion, and The Paris Review. She 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), read through whole libraries, and ended up running a feminist bookstore for the most of a decade. 

It wasn’t until Lambert 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, and at sixty-six her memoir A Certain Loneliness was released.