Sarah is a poet, rambler and chocolatier.
She has taught courses at Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts Boston including Advanced Science Writing, Composition, Creative Writing and Environmental Writing, at Osher Long Life Institute, Suffolk County Correctional Facility, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Sarah holds an MFA in Poetry from UMass Boston. She also holds an MA in Cultural Geography and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and a BA in Environmental Studies from Mount Holyoke College.
Her latest chapbook is Being Called Normal, published by tall-lighthouse, London, UK. Her previous chapbook is The Bullshit Cosmos, published in July 2019 by ignitionpress of Oxford Brookes University.
Past/Ongoing projects:
- New Post Occupancy – research project visiting and documenting New Deal era post offices
- #SublimeCity / #WalkYourCity – a subversive Instagram series that brings the language(s) of nature(s) into the city and creates safer public space for women through solo city walks via @Shapi20s
- Sounds With Sarah – an aural experience of walking available in all podcast players
Her poetry has been published in:
- Backchannels – “Honey and Home” – Edition 10, Winter 2022
- Thimble Literary Magazine – “Davening Test” – Issue 4.1, Summer 2021
- Figure 1 – “You have many strengths however” – Issue 5c, 2021
- The Cardiff Review, Cardiff, Wales, UK – “Tashlikh: In Cambridge, MA” – June 2020
- The Scores, St Andrews, UK – “Raincoat” – Issue 7, Winter 2020
- SMOKE, Liverpool, UK – Winter 2020
- *82Review, Berkeley, CA, USA – “Gardening” – Issue 7.2, June 2019
- TIMBER, Boulder, CO, USA – “Defining Words You Can’t Spell” – Issue 9.1, June 2019
- Glittermob, New York, NY, USA – Issue 10, Winter 2018
- She Grrrowls Zine, London, UK – Spring 2017
- Poetica Magazine, Richmond, VA, USA – Fall 2016
- Bunbury Magazine, London, UK – Issue 14, October 2016
- Bedford Square 9, Bedford Square Anthology, London UK – March 2016
She has presented/exhibited at:
- George Hess Educational Complex, Mays Landing, NJ – January 2020
- Chautauqua Writers’ Festival – June 2019
- SALTISE Conference – June 2019
- University Conference on Teaching, Learning & Technology – May 2019
- BAAA Gallery – December 2018
Other writing:
- Broadsided Press – “Broadsides to Books: A Not-So-Silent Body” review – August 2021
- Broadsided Press – “Broadsides to Books: Familiar Country” review – December 2020
- Broadsided Press – “Broadsides to Books: Mouth and Mastodon” review – November 2019