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A journalism graduate from the University of Denver, Sandra began her writing career as a reporter with Business Week. A staff member for twenty-five years (and the magazine’s first female bureau chief,) she covered the Rocky Mountain region, writing about everything from penny stock scandals to hard-rock mining to contemporary polygamy. Many of her experiences have been incorporated into her novels. At the same time, she wrote nine nonfiction books, including Sacred Paint, which won the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Wrangler Award.
Turning to fiction in 1990, Sandra has published six novels, with the seventh, Tallgrass, scheduled for early 2007. Sandra was the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for The Chili Queen and the Women Writing the West Willa Award for New Mercies. In addition, she has been a finalist for the Colorado Book Award as well as the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Assn. Award, and a three-time finalist for the Women Writing the West Willa Award. Her tenth nonfiction book, The Quilt That Walked To Golden, won the Independent Publishers Assn. Benjamin Franklin Award.
The mother of two daughters—Dana is an attorney in New Orleans, and Povy is a photographer in Golden, Colorado—Sandra lives in Denver with her husband, Bob.