Chivas Sandage is at work on THE WIND BLEW THROUGH US: Love, Murder, & Justice in Texas, forthcoming in hardcover from the University of Texas Press. The Massachusetts Cultural Council’s 2020 Artist Fellowship Program awarded Sandage a $1,500 artist grant as a finalist for her work on this narrative nonfiction book about the 2012 double shooting of Kristene Chapa and Mollie Olgin, a young lesbian couple attacked while on a date in Portland, Texas. On the night of June 22, 2012, a lone… Show more Chivas Sandage is at work on THE WIND BLEW THROUGH US: Love, Murder, & Justice in Texas, forthcoming in hardcover from the University of Texas Press. The Massachusetts Cultural Council’s 2020 Artist Fellowship Program awarded Sandage a $1,500 artist grant as a finalist for her work on this narrative nonfiction book about the 2012 double shooting of Kristene Chapa and Mollie Olgin, a young lesbian couple attacked while on a date in Portland, Texas. On the night of June 22, 2012, a lone gunman sexually assaulted then shot, execution-style, a lesbian teenage couple in a suburban South Texas park. Nine hours later, bird watchers found Mollie Judith Olgin, 19, and Mary “Kristene” Chapa, 18, on a windy coastal bluff that slopes into Corpus Christi Bay. Both girls had been shot in the back of the head at point-blank range. Mollie died at the scene. Miraculously, Kristene survived.The Wind Blew Through Us is the first book to tell Kristene and Mollie’s story and only the second narrative nonfiction book authored by gay women to ever address violence against gay women in America. Show less

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