David Sandner

David Matthew Sandner (born 1966) is an author and editor of fantasy literature and a professor at California State University, Fullerton.

Education and career
Sandner has a master's degree from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of Oregon. His doctoral thesis was titled The Fairy Way of Writing: Fantastic literature from the romance revival to Romanticism, 1712–1830, and was completed in 2000. He is a professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton.

Books
Sandner's books include:

Fiction

 * Mingus Fingers (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2019)
 * Hellhounds (with Jacob Weisman, Fairwood Press, 2022)

Non-fiction

 * The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children's Fantasy Literature (Greenwood, 1996)
 * Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831 (Ashgate, 2011), a two time Mythopoeic Awards finalist

As editor

 * Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader (Praeger, 2004)
 * The Treasury of the Fantastic (with Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications, 2013)
 * Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now (McFarland, 2020)