About Sarah
I was born in Portland, ME on June 6, 1981, and grew up in Upstate New York. I graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2003 with a B.A. in English and Philosophy. I love St. Lawrence, some might say to a dangerous degree, and I still miss it. I live in Uptown New Orleans, and I have a boyfriend and two cats. The cats have a ridiculous amount of fur, the boyfriend not so much.
Some of my favorite authors are Robin Hobb, George R.R. Martin, Arthur Ransome, Tamora Pierce, Tad Williams, Margaret Atwood, Ellen Kushner, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, J.K. Rowling, Elinor Lipman, L.M. Montgomery, Kate Chopin, Jane Austen, Anne Perry, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Anne McCaffrey. I enjoy Star Wars, X-Files, Firefly, and BBC costume dramas, but I don't watch much TV. I have a mild obsession with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I was instantly hooked on the internet when my dad showed it to me in his office in 1996, and ten years later, our love affair is still going strong. I firmly believe I can find anything on the internet in 5 seconds flat. I love sailing and the outdoors, and I volunteer with a group that helps to protect the lives of feral cats.
I have lived in New Orleans since May 2003. We evacuated to Nashville for Katrina mere hours before the storm hit, and ended up continuing on to Boston, where we spent the fall. (You try spending a fall in Boston with no socks, shoes, or long pants.) I was lucky enough to only lose my car and some clothing.
I originally moved to New Orleans to attend Tulane Law School, but one year of that was enough to make me decide I didn't want to rot in an office in extreme boredom, pretending to be fascinated by legal red tape, for the rest of my life. I realized the only jobs I'd ever actually liked were my six years as a camp counselor and sailing instructor. I promptly left for Maine to teach sailing for the summer, and that was when the legal world knew it had lost me. I am now a graduate student at the University of New Orleans. I'm nearly finished with my teacher certification in middle school language arts.
In Boston, I was able to complete the first draft of my first novel, a space opera adventure starring four chicks who blow stuff up. I also have several short stories that I'm shopping around. I seem to be in the "rejected with praise" phase of my speculative fiction career, thus far. Hopefully, 2007 is going to be my year.