You can see the planet Venus with the naked eye in the middle of the day. 
When you know exactly where to look, it pops out of the blue sky like a star that was waiting for you to notice it. Writing is all about helping people see that the everyday is extraordinary.
I am a young writer currently based in rural southeastern Connecticut. I grew up in this area and left for college in the great cold state of Maine. After four years of studying English, creative writing, and snow, I graduated from Colby College in 2004. I moved to Maryland in search of a warmer climate. Looking for a way to change the inequities I saw in education, I began teaching in Baltimore City Public Schools. In the two years I spent in the largest middle school in the city, I grew up hard, fast, and dirty. Sometime in there, I also managed to get a master’s degree in teaching from Johns Hopkins.
I moved back to Connecticut to teach in a high-performing charter school in New Haven, called Elm City College Prep. There, I honed my teaching and was able to discover new literature with my students. Helping my students develop as writers inspired me to push my own craft to the next level. At the end of the school year in 2009, I became a parent. My highly demanding teaching career was incompatible with my vision of parenting, so I took some time off.
From my daughter’s birth, I knew I was over matched. Sleep deprivation cured me of all creative impulses. After the first six months, when the poopy diapers started to slow, I decided I needed something intellectual in addition to being a stay-at-home mother. I dusted off my laptop and started to write again.
I write every day, usually while my daughter is napping, and belong to a local writer’s group. I have written numerous short stories and one novel, and am currently in the middle of a second novel. I write literary fiction, and read everything. I am beginning to send work out for consideration, and I hope to be taking over your bookshelf soon.
Email me: sarah(at)starrmurphy(dot)com