Sandy Rochelle is an award winning poet-actress and filmmaker. Her poems have been influenced be her son, David, who is autistic and deaf. Publication include: Formidable Woman, Visions International, Ekphrastic Review, Writing in a Woman's Voice, and others.

Sandy is the recipient of the Autism Society of America's Literary Achievement Award, The World Peace Prayer Society Poetry Prize, and she has been named New York State: ''Mother of the Year.''