Sandra Rose

SJ Rose (Sandra Rose) was born on April 22, 1955 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. She is one of six siblings. Her father was a railroad worker who instilled the importance of obtaining a good education, and her mother was a homemaker. As a result, all six of his children and 13 out of 15 grandchildren are college graduates.

SJ Rose is widowed, has three grown children and two grandchildren.

SJ received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education at Clarion University, located in Clarion, Pennsylvania. SJ also secured her Master of Education Degree in Education, with a Reading Specialist Certification from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

After college graduation, SJ and her husband moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she worked as a substitute teacher in the Philadelphia School System for three years. Then she secured a position as a first grade teacher in a Catholic school, which lasted one year. In 1981, SJ was hired by the Camden Board of Education, and taught reading at the middle and high school levels. During this time, she was divorced, and eventually remarried. SJ also worked as a literacy coach/leader in an elementary school and retired in 2012 after 31 years.

SJ wrote her first novel, The Seductive Schoolhouse Scandal, inspired by true events of her experience as a whistleblower in a school scandal, which involved sex, lies, and deception. She referred to this experience as ‘the dark years’ of her life.

Pegasus Books published The Seductive Schoolhouse Scandal in March 2012.
Kathy Krantz Stewart completed the screenplay of The Seductive Schoolhouse Scandal in January 2014.