Sara’s deep love for gardening expresses itself in her second collection of essays and poetry, The Imperfect Garden—a memoir (Regent Press 2009), chronicling decades of gardening experiences. She writes a garden column for The MacArthur Metro, an Oakland, California newspaper, and has published short fiction, essays and poetry in Peregrine: Journal of Amherst Writers & Artists, Oxygen Press, Cottage Gardener, East Bay Express, Green Prints and Restless Me Travel Magazine. 

When she is not working in her own garden, she enjoys puttering in other people’s gardens, designing crocheted clothes, singing with Mozaik, an a cappella international folk chorus (www.myspace.com/mozaikvoices), and digging in the dirt with her four grandchildren. She lives in the Laurel District of Oakland, California with her husband and garden-friendly dog.