Sandra W HeadenSandra W. Headen, a former teacher and researcher at Chapel Hill, is a full-time writer. Her historical middle-grade novel, Warrior on the Mound, was awarded SCBWI's On-the-Verge/Emerging Voices Award for writers from underrepresented groups; in addiion, her short story Papa's Gifts (The Carolina Quarterly, March 2019) was awarded the Jones African-American Literary Award by the North Carolina Writers' Network. Read More Read Less