After near­ly two decades as a scriptwriter and video pro­duc­er for For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, Sande Boritz Berg­er returned to her first pas­sion: writ­ing fic­tion and non­fic­tion full time. She com­plet­ed an M.F.A. in Writ­ing and Lit­er­a­ture at Stony Brook Southamp­ton Col­lege where she was award­ed The Deb­o­rah Hecht Memo­r­i­al prize for fic­tion. Essays and short sto­ries have appeared in over 20 antholo­gies, and her nov­el The Sweet­ness was a semi-final­ist in Ama­zon’s year­ly Break­through Nov­el Awards. Sande lives in Man­hat­tan with her hus­band and has two daughters.