Sandra Dutton has published five books for children and a sixth, Mary Mae and the Gospel Truth, a novel, is forthcoming in June 2010 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dutton has an A.B. in Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition, and taught English at the University of Louisville and New York Institute of Technology. She was the founder, in 1982, publisher and editor of her own literary magazine, River City Review, in Louisville, Kentucky. She is also a painter, exhibiting most recently at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset, the University of Southern Maine at Lewiston, and the University of New England. She is the mother of two grown sons and now lives with her husband in Maine.
