About Sarah

Favorite color: Red

Recent favorite books: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton; The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai; The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty; The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton; The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab; The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd; The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Favorite movies: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Ocean’s Eleven, and Back to the Future

Favorite album: U2's Achtung Baby

Favorite vacation spot: Maui, but I also love Las Vegas

Favorite time of day: Dusk

Favorite season: Summer

Favorite class in high school: Physics

The thing I love to hate: Running

Worst subject in school: Besides calculus? French

A long time ago I was an engineering major in college. When I accidentally sat through the wrong calculus class and didn't realize it because I was so used to being hopelessly lost, I realized that maybe the engineering thing wasn't my boat of gravy. I eventually earned a degree in art. I followed in the footsteps of my artistic heroes Andy Warhol and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec by becoming a graphic designer, which I’ve done with some success since 1998.

As visual language became my meal ticket, the emotion of it, the feels, often got lost. Graphic design exists to force an emotion—essentially, to sell. I wanted to tell a story.

So I did. I started writing. Then I stopped. Started again. Took a class, met some other writers. Stopped. Started. Had twins. Wrote some more. I was able to finish and publish two novels, with more sitting in my back pocket.

For something fun, I attended a monthly pottery class at a local park. When the pandemic hit and everything shut down, I found that I missed having my fingers in clay. I wanted to create something that didn’t only exist on a screen with different colored pixels. I bought some clay to work with at home, and eventually crammed a wheel into the basement next to the water heater and a kiln into the garage behind the skateboards and bikes.

Today I try to split my time between writing, pottery, and of course, family. It’s a busy life, but it’s colorful and fun.