Judy Sandler is pursuing her Master’s Degree in creative nonfiction from The University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program. Before graduate school, she taught English and elementary education in independent schools. She holds a Master’s Degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University. She has been published in Edutopia, an on-line educational journal, and Collection Magazine, the yearly publication of Friends School of Baltimore. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, with whom she has raised three grown children.