Sarah A. Rae lives in Chicago and is a native of Champaign, Illinois.  She has worked as an educator and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans. Her chapbook, Someplace Else, was published by dancing girl press in 2020. Her work may also be found in Gyroscope Review, Jet Fuel Review, Naugatuck River Review, On a Wednesday Night, Anti-Heroin Chic, and the New Orleans-based Poetry Buffet Anthology, among others. Her translations of work by Mexican poet Guadalupe Ángela have been featured in Ezra and in video format online in Jill! A Woman+ in Translation Reading Series.