Sandra Mushi is an interior designer with a strong passion for writing.  Her love for writing and drawing, or rather doodling, started at a very young age.  When Sandra was around 3-4 years of age, her mother then was attending university, to keep her young daughter busy so as to not distract her from her homework, Sandra’s mother would give her scraps of paper and baby Sandra would just bury herself in them.  Her mother knew just how to make a chatter box daughter shut up – through books – and it still works to this day.  Her journey towards her love of letters, words and images – creativity as a whole - was then born.

Sandra’s mother had kept for many years a drawing that captured Sandra’s love for creativity – at the age of 4, on cardboard, Sandra had drawn a woman watering a flower outside her house, a tree beside the house, a witch on a broom stick hovering above the house, an aeroplane a little above the witch, a moon, a few stars and a sun – all on the same sky, together with a rainbow.  Proudly after finishing her master piece baby Sandra then signed her name – backwards – ardnaS.

Her parents seeing her daughter’s love for books started investing in books – and Sandra would just bury herself in them.  Many of her old friends who were with her in Botswana where she did her O’level’s would describe Sandra as the girl who always was in her room reading.

While Sandra always wrote as a teenage – whether it was short stories, letter or comics, when time was in abundance, she had to put her passion for writing as well as drawing and painting – when she started university. 

It was only in April 2004 when she was on holiday - inspired by the nature and the wilderness, Jill Scott and India Arie, Maya Angelou and Iyanla Vanzant - when she started writing again.  But this time she attempted something she had never tried before; poetry.  Thrilled with what she had written she decided to share it with the world through authorsden.com.

Sandra considers herself to be very blessed, a woman who does not follow the norms and tries. “It’s not always easy,” she says, “but I have a great support system from my friends and family.”  Sandra learns from the people around her and picks things that can build her.  Sandra doesn’t have and refuses to have regrets or mistakes in her life – she calls them road bumps, experiences – and she embrace them, learns from them to make a better person.  From these life lessons come her many prose.  Sandra just loves life - just to be able to wake up to another bright day and do what you do best, knowing that you have choices.  She always look at her glass as being half full and never half empty.

Born in Dar es Salaam, lived in UK, then moved back to Dar es Salaam before going to Botswana (where she did her O’level’s) , then back to Dar es Salaam (where she did her A’level’s), and then South Africa (where she went to university and worked for a few years before returning home) … phew … Sandra now lives Dar es Salaam where she is practicing another one of her passions – interior designing – while she is laughing, living, loving and learning.