Sarah Walker is a writer from Northeastern Pennsylvania, now living in Greater Boston. She was the 2017 Dennis Lehane Fiction Fellow at the Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program. Her work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Cleaver, Colorado Review, CutBank, Longform Pick of the Week, Maudlin House, New Limestone Review, Southern Indiana Review, among others. She was a finalist for the 2022 Robert Day Fiction Award, a finalist for the 2023 Iron Horse Long Story Prize and a semifinalist for the 2023 Story Foundation Prize. Her story collection How Dare You Want More was a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press St. Lawrence Book Award. Her fiction has been supported by the Tin House Workshop and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.