Eight years after graduate school, Judy was introduced to novelist, playwright, translator, visual artist and co-founder of Chelsea Magazine--Ursule Molinaro--and joined the private fiction class that she held in her East Village apartment. It was during this invaluable class experience that Judy wrote her entire second novel, The Metal Girl. The book is dedicated to the memory of Molinaro.

As a journalist, Ms. Sandra covers independent film for Moving Pictures Magazine and blogs about communications and culture at JS Media Blog. She has written a screenplay Something In Common and has read her poetry and fiction at the New York Public Library reading series and at various venues throughout the New York City metropolitan area. Portions of The Metal Girl were read at the original Dixon Place on the Bowery. Judy Sandra currently resides in Los Angeles, California.