Sandra Kovacs Stein

SANDRA KOVACS STEIN was born in Calcutta, India, grew up in the Dominican Republic, and went to school in Canada, where she planned to settle. However, she fell in love with an American, and wound up moving to Queens, New York after they married. Nobody knew about the longing to feel significant she had grown up with, and that had stayed with her throughout her marriage. After her husband's untimely death, she went on a search for roots and purpose, steeping herself in New Age and occult doctrines which she believed provided the answers she had been looking for. Her yearnings were finally fulfilled when by the age of 39, she became a published numerologist, enjoying the novelty of being sought out for her expertise. That path has long since been abandoned, but memories still linger of how her vulnerability led her to believe in a lie that she persuaded others to buy into as well. "Sincerely Wrong," published in 2011, is a testimony of the improbable journey that led her from the occult to Christianity at a time when she was convinced she had all the answers, and was no longer seeking.

STEIN has experienced many unexpected twists and turns in her life, which have taught her to be adaptable and open to trying new things. She has enjoyed a variety of work experiences, including transcriptionist, speech pathologist, audiologist, and computer programmer. As a single mom, she started a home-based typing/editing/word processing service so she could be there for her two young children when they came home from school. She now lives in Purcellville, Virginia, close to her daughter, three of her seven grandchildren, and three of her five great-grands.

With the advent of digital photography, STEIN became an avid photographer, and when a pair of ravens built a nest near the top of a water tower across from her balcony in the spring of 2013, she took many photos of the babies learning how to fly. These became the inspiration for her first children’s picture book, The Water Tower Ravens, which launched her onto an exciting new career as a writer for children.