About Sandra

In this photo taken by my friend Pingis, I am flying in a helicopter over the archipelago on my way back into Stockholm. Feeling like a rock star, we landed on a pad in the Baltic just next to the city's Old Town. Life doesn't get much better than that.

In this photo taken by my friend Pingis, I am flying in a helicopter over the archipelago on my way back into Stockholm. Feeling like a rock star, we landed on a pad in the Baltic just next to the city's Old Town. Life doesn't get much better than that.

There are two things you need to know about me. 1) I love to travel. 2) I love to write. Since I was a teenager reading Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway, I dreamed of leaving my Midwestern roots behind and making my living as a foreign correspondent. London, Paris, Sydney and Barcelona all seemed to be interesting places for a new home base, but Sweden was never on my relocation radar. Somehow in one of those perverse life twists of the “if it does not kill you it will make you stronger” type, I landed in Stockholm in September 2004 with my Australian husband Robert Corkery (luckily, he also loves to travel and loves my writing).

The transition to living internationally has been a fantastic adventure filled with lots of laughter and more than a little drama. I have been lucky enough to do an amazing amount of travel, from New Zealand and South Africa to Hong Kong and Singapore, from Iceland and Holland to Italy and the Czech Republic and lots more. I just got back from Shanghai where I had an amazing time.

Career-wise, I spent 16 years at F&W Publications, working my way up from intern to editorial director of the art magazine group. It was a great experience: getting paid to judge, look at and speak about art is definitely a good gig! Here in Stockholm, I’ve worked as the editor in chief of Scanorama, the in-flight magazine for SAS and also as a freelance writer. Now I am in the midst of writing my first book based on some of my favorite travel adventures.