Sarah Koken Colón is a poet, writer, and educator from the American West. She spent her childhood in a New Religious Movement in Southwestern Montana, which led to her study and exploration of religion, faith, and the traumas imposed by belief systems. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Account, Swamp Ape Review, and The Examined Life, among others. She currently lives with her husband and their blended family of six children in Largo, Florida.