Steven Sandage is a writer, editor, and publication designer who has come to see storytelling as both craft and conversation; something built carefully, but meant to feel natural. He graduated from Fresno State in 2024 with a degree in Creative Writing and is currently pursuing his Master’s, continuing the work of figuring out not just what stories say, but how they stay with people.

He has written more than 300 articles as a reporter, copywriter, and critic, the kind of experience that teaches you how to find the center of a story quickly, but also when to slow down and let it unfold. That same balance carries into his role as Co-Executive Editor of a university literary journal, where he helped guide its return to print, bringing something lasting back into readers’ hands.

Along the way, he has served as a judge for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and as a peer reviewer for Young Scholars in Writing, experiences that have shaped his perspective from the other side of the page, where attention, care, and instinct all matter just a little more. He approaches his work with a mix of intention and curiosity, believing that the best writing doesn’t just communicate clearly, it leaves an impression, sometimes quietly, sometimes all at once, but always with purpose.