Sands Hall’s recent memoir, FLUNK. START. Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology (Counterpoint Press) was listed in the top ten books in Religion and Spirituality, Spring 18, by Publisher’s Weekly. She is also the author of a novel, Catching Heaven, a Random House Reader’s Circle selection; and of a book of writing essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer’s Craft. Her short fiction has appeared in such journals as New England Review, The Iowa Review, and Green Mountains Review. A graduate of The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she holds a second M.F.A. in Theatre Arts and is a playwright, as well as a singer/songwriter. Sands is an associate teaching professor of English and creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College. This is the twenty-seventh summer she has taught for the Festival.