Sandra "Sandy" Bruney was born in New York State, but due to her father's job on the Erie Railroad (later the Erie Lackawanna) the family moved frequently. Sandy often says she attended three different high schools in three different states in three years.
     She attended the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, School of Art and Design, where she graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree. She taught art as an itinerant elementary art teacher until she moved to Pennsylvania where she taught junior high art until her second marriage and subsequent move to North Carolina.
     Unable to find a teaching position, Sandy worked in a bank until the urge to write became too great. She started as a stringer for a daily newspaper, covering local events and government. Eventually she became a part-time and then a full-time reporter on a weekly newspaper before her promotion to city editor.
     In addition to writing news stories, Bruney wrote a column for ten years called "Confessions of a Yankee Housewife" that expored the dilemma of a Yankee transplant trying to understand a new culture. If anyone has ever wondered why a toboggan is a sled up North and a knitted hat down South, she will understand some of the confusion. As editor, Sandy added a weekly editorial to her writing assignments.
     As interesting and absorbing as newspaper work is, it leaves little time for fiction, which was and is her first love. While still at the newspaper, Sandy and several other members of her writing club scripted "A Ripple in the River," an outdoor drama set in the early 1800s. Having done the research, Sandy decided to use the information she gleaned in a novel tentatively titled "Morven." That novel is nearly complete after more than five years of writing and revising.
     Sandy has published short stories in a major women's magazine, but "Angels Unaware" is her first published novel. The book is partly based on real life experience and partly on "what if" musings.
     "I thought, 'What if my husband hadn't been supportive during my own yearlong battle with cancer?'" Sandy says. "I made Jordan into the exact opposite and gave Kat more to contend with than just her disease. I hope it makes for an interesting story."
     Sandy and her husband have raised three sons and now have two grandsons and a granddaughter whom they love to spoil.