When Sanders was eight, the family, which included her younger brother and sister, moved to Rolling Meadows, Illinois where her father took a job in wallpaper sales.
After 20 years of freelance writing, Sanders wrote her first novel, Rachel's Secret, an historical fiction, published in 2012 by Second Story Press.
[7] To help make the leap from non-fiction journalism to historical fiction, Sanders completed the University of Toronto's Creative Writing Certificate in 2013.
[10] Sanders received a Canada Arts Council Grant to write the third book in the trilogy, Rachel's Hope, which was published in September, 2014.
[13] Rachel's Hope was shortlisted for the 2016 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature, presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts.
[15] In March, 2015, Sanders was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant to complete The Shark's Wife, a literary fiction novel she began five years earlier.
[16] Sanders signed with literary agent Beverley Slopen in 2021, who sold Daughters of the Occupation to Harper Collins Canada (Patrick Crean Editions).