Sandee is a retired French and Spanish teacher who lived in Parks, Arizona, before moving to Chicago. She has a Bachelor's in French from Florida State University and a Master's in Education from Weber State in Ogden, Utah.

In her only writing class at WSU, her professor urged her to submit her story to the university writing contest; it won first place. When she retired from teaching, her professor said, "You'll have a new career writing."

After wasting a few years looking for an agent, Sandee now publishes on Amazon. She currently has two novels, three books of short stories, and a short story and two poems published in the anthology, Northern Arizona Authors Association Collected Works Volume 2.