Sandra Sidi writes fiction and nonfiction. She was an analyst with the U.S. military in Baghdad in 2007 and 2008. She was a Fellow for the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, where she studied with the Israeli Defense Forces during the height of the Israel-Hezbollah crisis of 2006. She holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from Yale University where she won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her work on bargaining with insurgent groups. She received her MFA from Texas State University San Marcos, with a writing focus on Women in Combat, Israeli soldiers, and American soldiers. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Longreads, Narrative Magazine and in Creative Nonfiction, an anthology by Kendall Hunt Publishing. Her novel-in-progress about Israeli soldiers was an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship. She has been a Fiction Contributor to the Sewanee Writer's Conference and Tin House Writers Workshop. She is a guest instructor at the U.S. Marine Corps University, where she lectures on female integration in combat, sexual assault prevention and U.S. foreign policy in Iraq. She teaches writing at Texas State University and is working on a novel about Israeli soldiers.
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