SANDRA FAULKNER

Amelia swimming upstream with friends

In the variety of work I have done in my lifetime-from jury consulting, to teaching, interpreting and writing- there are three uniting threads: access, art and communication.


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Whether by accident or design, I have happily drifted toward the creative center of each career.

I studied law, my sights set on being an attorney. Inside the courtroom I found myself captivated by the unfolding dramas of the 9 -12 people seated in a jury box, (stage right). Their back-stories and their willingness to grapple with, and then instantly apply, complex legal theories, amazed me for fifteen years .Jury consulting appealed to my love of narrative and fostered in me an ever deeper respect for procedural justice in the United States.

It was my good fortune to co-author a best selling book about a celebrity case I was working on in Texas (that sent me to Aspen to write about Martina Navratilova and her break up with her long time companion).

In each field, it was the story, the structure, the human experience that captured my interest and ultimately brought me home.

Works

Book/Animation Development
Adventures of Amelia Trueheart
A small chicken falls off the truck on the way to market and must find her way alone, and with the help of creatures in the forest, to a place located on the other-side of deep and dark “Forest Anew”. Things will be better once she reaches her destination. But first, she must travel her course to discover what it means to be free.
novel/ screenplay
Without a Whisper
In this fast paced legal thriller, a female attorney, Morgan Jennings, 34, contests her father’s will. In the process she finds that he may have been responsible for several murders in and around the greater Seattle area. What begins as a search for justice becomes the journey of a lifetime. A character driven novel that explores procedural and primitive forms of justice and the ramifications of both upon the individual.