Sarah Hahn Brooks

Sarah Brooks, Tillie Olsen Fellow

Sarah Hahn Brooks is a lesbian writer, a middle school social studies teacher, and a single mother who lives in Boulder. She’s almost finished with her MFA at Naropa University. Her essays and stories have been published in Room, Sinister Wisdom, The Iris Brown Lit Mag, Adoptive Families, The Juneau Empire, notenoughnight, and The New Mexico Mercury. Her one-woman play, “Translation”, was produced at Juneau, Alaska’s Phoenix Theater in 2006. Her novella,The Beginning of Us, was published by Riptide in January 2014. When she’s put her daughter to bed and finished planning lessons each night, she writes. Currently, she’s working on a new novel and a set of essays about lesbian history. Find her at her blog, theboulderlesbian.blogspot.com. Tillie Olsen Fellow