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Sandi Stromberg has lived in Switzerland, Spain, England, and the Netherlands, as well as in eight states and many different cities. Then, in 1992, she was surprised to find herself in Houston, Texas, where it seems poetry was waiting for her. It’s been a rewarding, though challenging journey. She celebrates having found home in a city where creativity thrives—a bevy of arts and artists providing inspiration and community.
During her years in Europe and early days in Houston, she was an award-winning magazine feature writer and editor, as well as a facilitator of writing workshops geared toward helping women tell their stories.
Her first full-length collection of poems, Frogs Don’t Sing Red, was published by Kelsay Books in 2023.
She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, twice for Best of the Net, and was a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Fest eleven times. She also edited two poetry anthologies, Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press, 2015) and Echoes of the Cordillera (Museum of the Big Bend, 2018) with Lucy Griffith.
Her work has been published in many small journals, among them The Orchards Poetry Journal, San Pedro River Review, Gyroscope Review, Ocotillo Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Panoply, A Literary Zine, formidable woman sanctuary, The Windhover, MockingHeart Review, Colere: A Journal of Cultural Exploration, equinox, Illya’s Honey, Texas Poetry Calendars, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, and synkroniciti.
Poems have also appeared in anthologies, among them Enchantment of the Ordinary, The Senior Class, Weaving the Terrain, Bearing the Mask, Unknotting the Line: Prose Poems, easing the edges, Improbable Worlds, and How to Tend a Wall.
Some of her poems have also been translated into Dutch and published by Brabant Cultureel in the Netherlands.
She is currently an editor at The Ekphrastic Review. She can be followed or contacted at www.facebook.com/sandi.stromberg.
Paperback: 110 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (March 27, 2026)
Also available on Kindle