Sara received a BA from Brown and an MFA from The New School. She has written for national magazines, co-hosted the Sunday Salon, a monthly reading series in New York's East Village, and taught creative writing at Rutgers University, St. Joseph's College and with Ditmas Writing Workshops. Her stories have been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Joyland, Jewish Fiction, The Good Men Project, Slice Magazine, and elsewhere, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and included in Wigleaf's Top 50. She is a former mentor for Girls Write Now and received a 2012 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Raised outside of Philadelphia, she lives with her husband and children in Brooklyn. Her debut story collection, Doll Palace (Dock Street Press), was long-listed for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her collection, JERKS, is forthcoming from Mason Jar Press in 2022.