A finalist in the solo/duo category of the 2017 International Blues Challenge and two-time semi-finalist (2018, 2020), Wyand holds a degree in music theory and composition from Stockton University (New Jersey). She owns and operates her own music school in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, where she teaches guitar, voice, songwriting and music theory. Wyand has toured extensively throughout the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Kuwait and France as a solo guitarist and singer, and has won numerous awards for guitar and songwriting including the Gamble Rogers Fingerstyle Guitar Competition, the South Florida Folk Festival Songwriting Competition and the Hank Williams Songwriting Award.