Bio:
Sarah has spent her life immersed in literature and film. Upon obtaining a degree in English at Dartmouth, she tried film production in NYC for two years. Afterward, she earned a Ph.D. from an interdisciplinary program at Stanford University, joining the Film Department of Vassar College in 1988, specializing in American film history. In 2009 Vassar awarded her the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowed Chair. Her scholarship centers on genre, dialogue, and narrative techniques, so she eats plots for breakfast, time schemas for lunch, point of view for dinner, and spectacle for dessert.
In 2012, while teaching a senior seminar on American Women Directors, she realized that neither the books nor films of Lord of the Rings could pass the Bechdel Test. That summer, she grabbed her laptop and started imagining a world that awaited the return of the queen. Her epic fantasy quartet, The Nine Realms, was published by TOR. All four books, A Queen in Hiding, The Queen of Raiders, A Broken Queen, and The Cerulean Queen, came out monthly, January through April, 2020.
After years on the East Coast, she moved with her husband to Colorado. Finding that she still has much to share, she has been teaching and lecturing at venues around the Denver metro area.