Born and raised in Southern Minnesota, Sandra Esch forges her story lines from her family heritage. Her debut novel, Tracks in the Snow (winner of the San Diego Christian Writers Guild Award for Best Fiction Book, 2012), was called "powerful ... profound and thought-provoking to the last page" by Susan Bethany in Reviewer's Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review's online magazine.
She lives with her husband, Fred, in Southern California.