Sara's work has appeared in Northwest publications including Best Places Portland, Bend Magazine, Eugene Magazine, The Source Weekly, The Portland Mercury and more. She is also an award-winning playwright.

Prior to OSU-Cascades she worked as web communications manager for Groundwire, a technology firm supporting environmental nonprofits in Seattle, Washington.

Sara enjoys '90s Northwest indie rock, small town parades, dive bars, local cookbooks, Shakespeare festivals and road trips with her trucker husband Ian.

Her great-grandparents moved to Bend in 1917. Sara was born and raised in Central Oregon.