Educated at University of California at Santa Clara, with a BA in "Classical Studies and Modern Poetry," she moved to Los Angeles after doing film-related work in the San Francisco Bay Area (Black Stallion and Lucasfilm). She volunteers extensively in literacy programs in both an elementary and high school setting. She has also worked at Beyond Baroque and Sun & Moon/Green Integer Press. Bachand is the author of three manuscripts, one of which, "luce a cavallo" won the Gertrude Stein Award for 2004 from Green Integer Press, and is forthcoming. She also been published in various journals.