Sara Marchant received her MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert. Her work has been published by The Manifest Station, Every Writer’s Resource, Full Grown People, Brilliant Flash Fiction, The Coachella Review, Writers Resist, East Jasmine Review, ROAR, and Desert Magazine. Her work has been anthologized in  All the Women in My Family Sing, and by Running Wild Press.  Her novel, Becoming Delilah and novella, The Driveway Has Two Sides, were published by Fairlight Books.  Her memoir, Proof of Loss, was published by Otis Books.

Long ago and far away, she worked at The San Diego Natural History Museum in their Bi-national Education Department utilizing her BA in Latin American History. Formerly, she taught Critical Thinking and Writing at Mt. San Jacinto College to the new generation that she hopes will someday save our society from its nihilistic impulses. She lives in the high desert of Southern California with her husband, two dogs, two horses, a goat, and five chickens. She is working on a memoir reflecting upon her experience as Mexican-Jewish woman in our current political hellscape. Sara is a founding editor of Writers Resist.  

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