Sandra Mercer was born and raised in Northboro, Massachusetts. Her career as an elementary educator has provided her with many wonderful opportunities to expose children to various genres and storybooks. When presented with the task of teaching students how to craft ideas for memoir writing, the idea of writing her own memoir began to take shape in her imagination. The Jewelry Tree, her first children’s book, developed out of her memories from growing up in Northboro in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
Sandra holds a master’s degree in reading and elementary education and enjoys online studies and coursework in classical literature. When she isn’t hiking the wooded trails near her home in North Carolina with her two adventurous grandchildren, Sandra can almost always be found browsing her favorite bookstores or working in her garden.
