Sandra Soper
Sandra Soper was born in Dundee in 1945. A devoted educator, she became the youngest deputy head teacher in her district before turning to educational writing and later working as a schools inspector. Widowed in 1997, she is a mother to four children, all born in Oxford before the family moved and settled in South London. She is the author of Primary First: Handbook for Primary Teachers, published by Oxford University Press, and now writes poetry shaped by a life of family, teaching, loss and reflection.