Open to Be Inspired and Willing to Be an Inspiration

Sandra Gardner is the author of six traditionally published books: three novels and three nonfiction books. Novels include: Dead Shrinks Don't Talk, Black Opal Books; Grave Expectations, Black Opal Books, mysteries; and Halley and Me, Evening Street Press, a coming-of-age novel. Halley and Me won the Grassic Short Novel Prize from Evening Street Press. Nonfiction books include: Teenage Suicide, Simon & Shuster; Street Gangs, Franklin Watts; and Street Gangs in America, Franklin Watts. Street Gangs in America received a book award from the National Federation of Press Women. Gardner is a former contributing writer for The New York Times.