When I heard she was in hospital, I procured every reason why I didn’t need to be at her side. It was only pneumonia. I had my novel to finish.
Author
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Sandra Jensen is a writer and teacher of writing living with chronic illness. Her work has appeared in World Literature Today, AGNI, The Irish Times, Descant, Hobart, and elsewhere. Awards include the 2019 Bridport Prize for a first novel, the Grindstone 2020 Novel Prize, and top 12 in the 2019 Writers’ Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition. She recently completed a comic coming-of-age novel and a book for writers living with chronic disabling conditions. The latter will be published in 2024. She lives in Brighton, England, with her partner and her cat, Ronan.