Hi friend! 

I’m Sarah. 

I come by my love of storytelling honest. My dad tells epic stories, a skill passed on to him from his dad, my Papa Jim, and so on. Storytelling is, essentially, the family business. I’m just the one that chooses to share those stories on the internet. 

I’ve tried a lot of things over the years. I grew up in a tiny town in the mountains of rural Virginia, left for college at the University of Tennessee. Then it was off to Nashville for a couple of years, working my first big girl job in marketing for a major brand while moonlighting as a music journalist. I headed back home to Charlottesville for my next marketing gig, kept the music thing for a while, and fell in love with fitness while I was at it. That’s where I became a barre instructor and a personal trainer. I hardly ever say no to an opportunity, so when the chance to open my own barre studio presented itself, I jumped and moved down to Chapel Hill, North Carolina – with another marketing job to boot. 

A lot happened during my three years in Chapel Hill. I opened and closed that barre studio in under a year. My mom died. There was a pandemic. And I reconnected with my love of writing which sent me towards pursuing a career in writing for television. I got into a few competitive film school MFA programs out in Los Angeles, started my MFA during said pandemic, and then it was off to Los Angeles. 

I didn’t love Los Angeles and two years into a three year MFA program, I headed the call back to Nashville where I planned to stay a while. Except God laughed and sent me back to my beloved Knoxville which is where I am now, working for UT and loving every minute of it while I teach Pure Barre and publish romance novels on the side.

Welcome, y’all. 

Let’s be bold.