Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is a writer living on the East Side of Old Town Longmont in a Victorian bungalow one alley away from the train tracks. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before going on to win a 2016 Colorado Book Award. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in literary journals such as Third Coast, Midwestern Gothic, Los Angeles Review, Hunger Mountain, and many others. She is currently working on two different novels (maybe even three), a collection of short stories, and a craft book. Schantz teaches as an adjunct for the MFA program at Naropa University; as faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop where she was the 2022 recipient of the Beacon Award for Excellence in Teaching, and for her own creative writing series, author services, manuscript midwifery and divinatory poetics venue, (W)rites of Passage. She has three cats: Tilly, the calico matriarch from Taos, New Mexico; Cinder, a gray rescue from Lubbock, Texas with a raspy Tom Waits' meow; and Ponyboy, a once feral Siamese kitten from Casper, Wyoming turned total lovebug.