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 and several anthologies, 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 journal which ran from 2020-2024. RMR published new and established poets alike, including several state poet laureates.
As a freelance editor, Sarah has specialized in poetry, personal essays, memoirs and dissertations. Her published nonfiction includes a collection of essays on becoming a spiritual director and the book A Pen and a Path: writing as a spiritual practice. In earlier years, along with raising two children, Sarah 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, The Presence Journal of Spiritual Directors International, and America Magazine. As an adjunct professor, Sarah taught courses on spirituality, poetry, and literature for over a decade. Sarah and her husband live by the Salish Sea in Washington State.
Though a poetry autodidact since her early days as an English major,
Sarah has taken a few workshops with: Centrum Writer’s Workshop,
Elisabeth Bradfield (via Orion magazine), and poet/editors Denise Frank,
Maya Zeller, Laura Reed, and Brigid Mosher.
