Sarah was raised by a flock of gentle beings: two musicians, the Wasatch Mountains, the Wind Rivers, and Great Salt Lake. She comes from five generations of Mormon stock and is a daughter of the land. Sarah's home is with traditional Shoshone territories and mountains in Utah, though she has also lived and loved in Kenya and New Zealand and is partial to the beings of British Columbia and Ecuador — two places she pilgrims to regularly. Her people's roots are in Celtic lands (especially the Scottish Highlands), Scandinavia, and England.
Sarah's life is given to Earth, and it is from more-than-human teachers that she takes her directives. She is a poet, performer, & multidisciplinary artist who works in embedded conversation with the animate beings around her. Drawing on experience in music, movement, writing, listening to the land, and Earth-based healing and activism, her process has ears that prick to the smallest glints of the sentient world. Her work responds to and collaborates with these voices, seeking to entangle humans with the sacred as it is held, danced, and breathed by the beings around us.
Her publications include poetry in national reviews The American Journal of Poetry, Calyx Journal, and Sugar House Review; essays exploring Mormon multispecies kindreds; and a dance-poetry film for Great Salt Lake. Sarah's eco-poetry is forthcoming in the anthology A Literary Field Guide to the Rocky Mountains as well as the eco-literary magazine The Hopper. She also has a book chapter forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Multispecies Justice. Sarah was Artist-in-Residence for Sitka Center for Art and Ecology's Winter 2024-2025 season; there, she wrote and sang full of the shimmering old breath of a coastal sitka forest. She is currently working as a nature writing resident, nestled deep in the mountains and dancing daily in the crook of the bluest river she knows. She is a MOTH Fellow for the 2026-2027 cohort of New York University's More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, working on a poetic project with Los Cedros, a sacred Ecuadorian cloud forest.
Sarah earned her Master's degree in socio-ecology in 2024, where she researched multispecies justice in the Intermountain West and Mormon settler relationships with ecologies. She worked both as part of a Shoshone project restoring the site of the Bear River Massacre and with downstream efforts to save Great Salt Lake. During her time there, she was awarded USU's 2024 Advocacy Student of the Year in Sustainability for her multispecies justice work with Great Salt Lake. She is currently pursuing an Environmental Sociology PhD continuing her research on multispecies justice and animism in the Great Salt Lake watershed.
Recent performances and projects include international gatherings for the more-than-human world; the Indigenous offering ceremony for Great Salt Lake; a TEDx performance piece; a Great Salt Lake art and poetry exhibit; protest performance projects; and a show of collaborative ecological works. Sarah's current projects include Earth connection and embodiment offerings; multispecies sentience & justice performances, research, and organizing; a nature writing residency; and various ritual activist, writing, and performance art efforts for and with Great Salt Lake and Los Cedros. For her ecological activism, she received the Bridgerland Audubon 2024 Jack Greene Youth Conservation Leadership Award.
Sarah serves on two non-profit boards: 1) Bichu-Nanewe (Return of the People), which empowers Native Cultural Resurgence, uplifts Ecological Tribal Knowledge, and works for Tribal Sovereignty, and 2) Los Cedros (The Cedars) Fund, a group supporting the conservation of one of the most biodiverse and mysterious forests in the world. Sarah is also affiliated with New York University's More-than-Human Life Program.
Sarah's primary teachers and mentors include a council of apple trees, Great Salt Lake, a dog called Magpie, Los Cedros cloud forest, the Winds, Katriona Wilder Ilsedóttir, wild yarrow, mycelia, the poet Kabir, David Abram, bioluminescent waters, Kirsten Vinyeta, hermit thrush, two rivers and a stream near her home, Rob Macfarlane, rainforest moths, phalarope, Darren Parry, grebe, jumping spider, Danielle Celermajer, skunk, orb weaver, hare, and Snake in her many shapes.
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