Sarah lives in New York City’s smallest apartment with New York City’s largest dog.  She works for Marie Claire magazine, often writing for the pop culture sections. She's also hard at work on Living Large, her first book, forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.

Her articles have also been published in Esquire, Wired, The Washington Post, Popular Science, Ladies' Home Journal, Creative Nonfiction, Esquire’s Big Black Book, in several literary and alumni magazines, and in the book Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction (forthcoming from W.W. Norton). She's also worked as a freelance article researcher for features in GQ and Ladies' Home Journal.  She holds a B.A. in fiction and M.F.A. in magazine writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she won the 2006 Creative Nonfiction Award.

As a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, she ran composition and magazine writing courses, and spoke about writing pedagogy at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in 2006.

She will likely force you to admire the adorableness of her St. Bernard.