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Patricia Sandberg escaped a law career and became a writer to tell the story of where she grew up. The resulting 2016 award-winning, nonfiction book Sun Dogs and Yellowcake: Gunnar Mines, a Canadian Story is about life in a uranium mine in northern Canada during the height of the Cold War. She is hard at work on a World War I historical novel. Her short stories have been shortlisted in competitions, published at The Cabinet of Heed and in the Lit Mag Love Anthology. She is also a presenter and public speaker.