Sandra Ramos O’Briant was born in New Mexico in 1949, in her grandparents’ home. When O’Briant was a young girl, she had two distinct lives: the life of a daughter of married parents and the life of a daughter of divorced parents. After graduating high school, she attended UNM as a Liberal Arts major. She later graduated from Arizona State University with a Master’s in Secondary Education. O’Briant was relatively successful in the business world, but decided that she longed for a more creative alternative and she began her career as a writer. She is not fluent in Spanish but has had many experiences with the language both in the classroom, abroad, and in her grandmother’s home. Sandra Ramos O’Briant is a woman who is captivated by the dream world. What used to be a “bad habit” that threatened her ability to be successful in school is now a way for her to connect the working of her brain with a tangible piece of work to be shared with the masses. O’Briant is inspired by the work of Isabelle Allende, a woman famous for her use of passion in all her works. O’Briant is not bound by a single genre, but enjoys reading a plethora of various materials. She describes her own writing style in one word: eclectic. Her favorite themes are those of survival, especially if the protagonist is a woman. O’Briant originally became a writer in order to challenge herself and now has one novel and twenty-two short stories published.