Scott Loring Sanders's work has been published in both literary magazines and larger publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His awards and honors include a writer-in-residency fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France; a fiction award from The Atlantic Monthly; a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and a Pushcart Prize nomination. He was also a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel fellowship and received nominations for Harcourt's Best New American Voices in 2004 and 2005. He lives in Virginia, where he writes and teaches writing.