About Joshunda Sanders

SANDERS, JOSHUNDA is currently a breaking news/cops reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, in Austin, TX. She has previously written for the news and features desks at two other regional newspapers in Texas, the Houston Chronicle, the Beaumont Enterprise, in addition to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She worked at the San Francisco Chronicle as a Hearst Newspapers Fellow (2000-2002). She was a features writer in San Francisco for three years and has also contributed to Vibe, Suede and Pop Matters magazines as well as numerous textbooks and encyclopedias. Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in “Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth About Women’s Friendships,” (Seal Press) and “My Soul To His Spirit: Soulful Expressions from Black Daughters To Their Fathers,” (SoulDictates Publishing). Her work will appear in a forthcoming Seal Press anthology, “Homelands,” scheduled to be published in January 2007. She graduated from Vassar College in 2000, where she majored in creative writing and is currently a Masters of Science and Information Studies candidate at the University of Texas.