After attending Chingford Secondary Modern and High Schools, Wandor studied English at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1962.
Her own writing encompasses poetry, short stories, essays, fiction and non-fiction books, plays and radio dramatisations.
[3] In 1982, her work (together with that of Michèle Roberts and Judith Kazantzis) was included in Touch Papers: Three Women Poets, published by Allison and Busby.
Wandor has adapted numerous novels for BBC Radio since the late 1970s, including works by Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.
A trained early musician, Wandor performs Renaissance and Baroque music with the group "The Siena Ensemble", and has broadcast and recorded in this role.