Sandra Zink, Ph.D.
She currently lives in Loveland, Colorado, and enjoys traveling and playing bridge.
Sandra Zink is a retired scientist living in Loveland, Colorado. After receiving her doctorate in physics from the University of New Mexico, she worked as a research medical physicist at two national laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Berkeley, California, for the treatment of cancer patients using high-energy charged particles. She continued work in that field at the National Cancer Institute as a Project Officer for various research contracts. After retiring in 2001, she built a ranch property at Eagle Nest, New Mexico, the Double Z, with her late husband, Milton Zapolski. Selling the property, she then moved to Loveland, Colorado, where she now resides.
Retiring from a career of science, Zink returned to her interest in writing. Employed as an Editorial Assistant as a young woman, she had worked for a weekly farm newspaper, the High Plains Journal in Dodge City, Kansas, where she wrote about local farmers and their families. But when she enrolled in college as a young mother, she chose to study physics and develop her knowledge and skills in science and mathematics, which had always interested her. After acquiring her advanced degree, she pursued a career of science for nearly three decades.