Sarah Beck received her BA in English at Brigham Young University and her MFA in Creative Writing at Minnesota State University Moorhead. In 2018 she was a semi finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for her novel in progress and has published poetry in the literary journal Red Weather (2013) as well as a nonfiction essay in Chaleur Magazine (2019). She has also taught as an English and Creative Writing adjunct instructor at North Dakota State University (2012-2014) and worked as a copy editor for MELUS, a journal specializing in studies of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States from July 2014-July 2016.