Sandy McIntosh was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and received a BA from Southampton College in 1970, an MFA from Columbia University in 1972, and a PhD. from the Union Graduate School in 1979. After working with children for eight years as a writer in the schools he completed a study of writers who taught in the program and how their work with children affected their own writing.  The study, The Poets in the Poets-in-the Schools was published by the Minnesota Center for Social Research, University of Minnesota. He alternated teaching creative writing at Southampton College and Hofstra University with publishing nonfiction works, such as Firing Back (John Wiley 1997), and computer software, such as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! (Electronic Arts, 1986). For several years he contributed journalism, poetry, and opinion columns to The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. He was also editor and publisher of Wok Talk, a Chinese cooking bi-monthly and the author and editor of several Chinese cook books.

His first collection of poetry, Earth Works, was published by Southampton College in 1970, the year he graduated. He has since published seven more collections

His original poetry in a screenplay shared the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. Recently, The New York Times’ web edition published his poem “Cemetery Chess,” and an excerpt of his collaboration with Denise Duhamel appears on The Best American Poetry blog.

He served as chairman of the Distinguished Poets series at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY from 1980-2000. He was elected to PEN American Center in the 1990's. His biography appears in Contemporary Authors volumes 45-48 (Gale Research Company).

He has been managing editor of Long Island University’s national literary journal, Confrontation, and is publisher of Marsh Hawk Press.

POETRY COLLECTIONS

Ernesta, in the Style of the Flamenco. New York: Marsh Hawk Press. 2010
237 More Reasons to Have Sex (written with Denise Duhamel). Australia: Otoliths. 2008
Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways To Escape Death. New York: Marsh Hawk Press. 2007
The After-Death History of My Mother. New York: Marsh Hawk Press. 2005
Between Earth and Sky. New York: Marsh Hawk Press. 2002
Endless Staircase, New York: Street Press
Monsters of the Antipodes, New York: Survivors Manual Books, 1980
Which Way to the Egress?  New York: Garfield Publishers, 1974
Earthworks, Southampton: Long Island University, 1970

PROSE

The Selected Poems of H.R. Hays.  Philadelphia: Xlibris Corporation. 2000
Firing Back: Power Strategies for Cutting the Best Deal When You’re About to Lose  Your Job (with Jodie-Beth Galos). New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1997
From A Chinese Kitchen, Baltimore: The American Cooking Guild. 1985
The Poets in the Poets-in-the-Schools Minnesota: Minnesota Center for Social Research, University of Minnesota. 1980

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Lost In Literature  New York: EastEnd Software Corp. 1994.
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! Los Angeles: Electronic Arts (and successors). 1986
The Best of Wok Talk.  Los Angeles: The Software Toolworks, 1984