Career
A frequent public lecturer, Sanders also conducts writing workshops across the United States, including recent ones in Alaska, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon, and New Mexico. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sanders is judging the 2016 Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction for Permafrost: Literary Journal.
Sanders was a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, where he taught from 1971 until his retirement in 2009.
During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and as a Visiting Professor at University of Oregon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Beloit College.
