Sandra Phoenix is an award-winning author from Southern Oregon. She has enjoyed a lifetime surrounded by nature's beauty and adventure. From the rugged Oregon coastline to the mysterious Oregon Cascades, she has developed a passion for local history, geology, hiking, and spelunking. Sandra prefers to write from the heart and enjoys exploring the mystery and amazement of life from that perspective. The year 2020 was a year of chaos as a world-wide plague locked us down and political unrest and social upheaval ignited riots in the cities. The Pacific Northwest was especially hard-hit as wildfires raged throughout the area, leaving thousands homeless. In southern Oregon, over 3,000 lost their homes as the Almeda Drive Fire burned through the towns of Ashland, Talent, Phoenix and into Medford. Sandra Phoenix became homeless as a result and she chronicles her struggles to stay positive and re-create a new life in her book "Firestorm 2020". The book contains many photos of the wildfire and the destruction it left behind. An award-winning finalist in The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, "That Men Should Fear" is the amazing first-hand account of the American Tech Sergeant, Ray W. Buck, who served during WWII in England. Buck flew 28 missions into enemy territory in a B-17 bomber as both a radioman and as a ball turret gunner. Sandra has also written three children's books. "Domino The Firedog" is an award-winning finalist in The Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and is a fully illustrated collection of six short stories for children to listen to at bedtime or read themselves. "Toadface" is a fairytale for all ages about a kingdom that is forced to wear masks in order to please their king and how that helps to bring two unlikely lovers together. The artwork included in the book is from the talented Oregon watercolor artist, Kay Myer. "Clarence and the Wizard of Stinkhorn Forest" is a quest story for all ages that revisits the kingdom of Rye, first introduced in "Toadface", and includes artwork created by the author.