Tory Hartmann

Tory Hartmann is the current owner of Sand Hill Review Press, LLC as well as the former editor of Parenting on the Peninsula, a monthly magazine distributed on the San Francisco Peninsula and throughout Silicon Valley. Besides writing for the publication and newspapers, her fiction has appeared in Descant, The Sand Hill Review, various editions of the yearly anthology Fault Zone, plus The Hurricane Review, The Homestead Review as well as many others. Her story The Jalopy was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Sand Hill Review Press's books have won over 20 awards. Active in Catholic clubs and affairs, Hartmann is a Knight of Saint Francis of Assisi as well as a Dame in the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher. “In order to be a Catholic in this day and age,” she says, “one has to take a long term perspective. A sense of humor is necessary! I love writing about Catholic culture and the experiences that many of us have shared. Even if we weren’t Irish, we were taught by Irish nuns, had Irish priests. My maiden name is Regan, so I suppose I had a real dose of it. I wrote First Friday: How virginity almost killed me to encapsulate the conflict between the old church and the new, young and old, tradition vs. superstition. I must say, I had so much fun writing about the O’Neils that I didn’t want to end it. Will I write a sequel? All I can say is maybe…" First Friday won a 2017 Independent Press Award.