Born in Camden, New Jersey, John Sandman has been a journalist for over three decades. His work has appeared in numerous publications, from the jazz magazine Down Beat to the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care to US News & World Report and a start-up at the Financial Times covering the insurance industry. At TheStreet.com, he wrote about student debt with a focus on loan servicers, for-profit colleges and the U.S. Department of Education. He received a 2013 award from the Society of Silurians, a New York City newspaper group, for a story about internet payday lending that appeared in City Limits. He was part of a team of reporters that won a Jesse H. Neal award for reporting on the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center for Securities Industry News, then owned by what is now Thomson Reuters. His first novel was published in Toronto by House of Anansi Press. He's received numerous writing grants from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation.