About Sarah

I studied at Sarah Lawrence College and graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University with a BA and partial Masters in social psychology. My focus was on psychoneuroimmunology and community health, through the lens of the AIDS epidemic. When I burned out from grieving dozens of friends, I shifted into the theatre world and attended Yale School of Drama for stage management. Later, I attended Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing program (fiction).

After a brief stint at Simon & Schuster, I landed in the television world, writing and later producing for VH1, Comedy Central, MuchMusic and Alliance Atlantis. I’ve taken Robert McKee’s Story Seminar, as well as a host of writing and film production workshops.

In the 1990s, I was head writer for the web’s first entertainment magazine, Entertainment Drive, and I content-designed and ghostwrote several of the first official celebrity websites (Cindy Crawford, Britney Spears and others). That was followed by stints as a print music journalist for national magazines, then film critic for the now-defunct Reel.com. More recently, I’ve written for Tiny Buddha, Writer’s Digest, Jane Friedman, Lion’s Roar, Modern Loss and Eckhart Tolle’s website, among others. I currently write three Substack newsletters. 

I was born in Princeton, New Jersey and moved to Canada in 1995. I currently live on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples and the Lekwungen-speaking peoples of the Songhees Nation and Xʷsepsəm Nation, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. I offer immense gratitude to the Snuneymuxw First Nation, in whose territory I experienced profound transformation.