[2] Sandys has had poems and short fiction published in several journals including in: Landfall (multiple pieces including short story 'The Postman', 2012); PEN (UK);[2] New Zealand Listener;[3] and New Zealand Books Pukapuka Aotearoa.
[4] With John Man, Sandys has ghostwritten several non-fiction works including The Survival of Jan Little (Penguin Books, 1986).
[2][1] In 2005, her play Vagabonds (previously titled Masquerade) was selected for the International Playwriting Festival in London.
[5] In the 2006 New Year Honours, Sandys was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.
[7] She was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, in 1995, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.