Dr. Kirsti A. Sandy

Kirsti Sandy is the Dean of the School of Arts, Education, and Humanities at Keene State College.

Previously, she served as Interim Dean and Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities. A professor of English, she also worked for three years as chair of the department of English, three years as Coordinator of Thinking and Writing, and a year and a half as the Interim Director of the Center for Writing. She taught courses in creative nonfiction, memoir writing, and grammar/style.

Dr. Sandy writes creative nonfiction. Her essay collection, She Lived and the Other Girls Died, was awarded the Bauhan Press Monadnock Essay Collection Prize for 2017; it will be published in October 2018. Her essay "I Have Come for What Belongs to Me" won the Northern New England Review's Raven Nonfiction Prize for 2017. Two of her pieces, "Man on the Floor" and "I Have Come for What Belongs to Me" have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. "Voodoo Economics" was nominated for a 2013 Best of the Net Award by the editors of the Boiler magazine.