Sandra has an interest in supporting and encouraging newly emerging poets of any age to write and explore the possibilities of poetry as an arts medium of dissent, protest and articulation of contradiction and anomaly. She writes about LGBTIQ+, social construction of gender and borders, boundaries and places.

She has poetry published internationally and nationally in journals including Eureka Street, Right Now, Burley, Hecate (University of Queensland), Axon: Creative Explorations (University of Canberra), Meniscus (University of Canberra), Australian Poetry Journal, Backstory, and Other Terrain (Swinburne University).

Sandra’s collection Apostles of Anarchy Recent Work Press, is shortlisted for the Marion Writers ACT Literary Award for Poetry 2024.

She is the winner of the ACT Writers Notable Awards for Poetry 2021 for her collection It’s the sugar, Sugar (Recent Work Press, 2021).

She was also the winner of the 2020 ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Poetry for her collection, Acting Like a Girl (also shortlisted for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year). Sandra was the judge of the ACT Writer’s Centre June Shenfield Award in 2021 and 2022.

Her work features as part of ArtSound FM’s Poetry on the Radio project, which includes a wide range of Canberra poets, in interviews and readings recorded in late 2022 and January 2023.

Sandra has appeared at the Poetry on the Move Festivals and the National Folk Festival Spoken Word in Canberra over the last few years, on panels and readings, and she is the Poetry Convenor for the Cobargo Folk Festival in 2024 and 2025.

Sandra has published three creative essays in the University of Canberra’s Axon journal:

• ‘When our world breaks, we bend with it’ (Axon: Creative Explorations, 11/2: On the Mend, December 2021

• ‘Master’s tools, Master’s house: All the old crimes’ (Axon: Creative Explorations, 10/2: Manifestos, diatribes and interventions, December 2020)

• ‘On Returning Home’ (Axon: Creative Explorations, 8/2: Turning Points: Narratives, health, and speaking the self, November 2018