Sandy Day

Sandy Day is a Canadian author of emotionally intense, character-driven fiction about ordinary lives, private truths, and the stories people tell themselves in order to keep going.

Her novels range from the warm, witty midlife reinvention story Odd Mom Out to the haunting, psychologically layered Where the Night Winds Wail. Across her work, Sandy is drawn to family complications, fractured friendships, longing, regret, reinvention, and the moments when a person’s carefully managed life begins to unravel.

Sandy writes on the lovely south shore of Lake Simcoe, Ontario, where lake-country landscapes, old memories, weathered cottages, tangled relationships, and small domestic dramas all have a way of finding their way into her imagination. Her fiction is intimate, observant, and emotionally frank, with room for humour, tenderness, and the occasional animal with strong opinions.

She writes a wildly entertaining weekly newsletter on Substack, where she shares personal essays, flash fiction, and reflections on writing, reading, and ordinary life and hopes you will subscribe.