Sarah’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Whale Road Review, Rogue Agent, Blue Mountain Review, About Place Journal, Glass Poetry, The Shallow Ends, Rise Up Review, Crab Creek Review, Gone Lawn, SWWIM.org, Psaltery & Lyre and EcoTheo Review, among others. She’s the author of the chapbooks Time’s Apprentice (dancing girl press, 2021) and Castaway (Glass Lyre Press, 2022). Sarah’s work has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net anthology. Sarah’s full-length collection, The Scarecrow of My Former Self (MoonPath Press, 2024) focuses on the themes of illness and grace and was a finalist for the Albiso Award. Sarah also founded and edited River Mouth Review, an online poetry review which ran from 2020-2024. RMR published new and established poets alike, including several state poet laureates and award winners.
As an adjunct professor, Sarah developed and taught courses on spirituality, poetry, and literature at the University of San Francisco. Prior to teaching, Sarah worked in college admissions and student services at San Francisco State University, and independently created and facilitated numerous workshops and courses on creativity and writing. As a freelance editor, Sarah has specialized in poetry, personal essays, memoirs and dissertations. Sarah is also a trained spiritual director via the Mercy Center in Burlingame CA (a three-year program completed in 2004). Her own nonfiction includes a collection of essays on becoming a spiritual director and the book A Pen and a Path: writing as a spiritual practice. She has also worked as a journalist and essayist, covering the topics of parenting, higher education, addiction and recovery, spirituality, creativity, and cultural commentary, in such venues as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The San Francisco Chronicle, Presence Journal, and America Magazine. Sarah now lives and writes by the Salish Sea in Washington State.
