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About Sara

In college, I worked as a teacher’s assistant in an advanced studio art class. My favorite part of that job was helping each student discover their own personal style, learning to incorporate theory and history into their vision of the world. Before college, I spent six years working as an educator at a wildlife museum, during which time I would lead tours, give presentation, and educate guests one-on-one if they had come to the museum for a school project.

I earned my Masters in Writing for Screen and Television from USC, and Bachelors in English from Barnard College of Columbia University, with a minor in Ancient Studies. I specialize in tutoring English, Academic Writing, and all forms of Creative Writing (prose, poetry, memoir, script, and stageplay). I'm also happy to tutor World History, Anthropology, Ancient History, and Art (history, theory, and practice). I have had my short stories published at professional rates, and won numerous awards for my screenplays, teleplays, poetry, and prose.

I love history and language like living things. Ask me about nearly any time and place and I will be very excited to share at least one relevant story with you. Ask me about Shakespeare's queer love affairs, the petty feud that led Ovid to write the foundational text of Roman mythology, or why Cleopatra dissolved and drank a pearl for dramatic affect, and that one story will blossom into a thousand.

In terms of specific writing credentials, I've won Best Hour-Long Teleplay in the Wildsound Film Festival, and Best First Time Screenwriter in the Chicago Genre Competition. I've had scripts place semifinalist in the Humanitas Drama Fellowship, The Launch Million Dollar Screenplay Competition, and Scriptapalooza, and quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowship and Screencraft Fellowship. While earning my Bachelors, I received the Ethel Stone Lefrak Award for “Excellence in the Arts” due to my prose writing, as well as the Sidney Miner Poetry Prize. My work has been published in genre anthologies Insert Title Here by Fablecroft Publishing, Dandelions on Mars by Whortleberry Press, and the podcast Pseudopod by Escape Artists.

Additionally, I founded and run an art gallery in Harlem, NYC. I spend my free time writing, filling painting commissions, and trying to mediate the war between my cat and all my houseplants. My debut novel is currently in the editing process, the project acquired by Jennifer Rees (editor of The Hunger Games).