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Sarah Thomas is a writer, editor and educator living in Key West, Florida and Geneva, Switzerland. Her published work spans interviews with rock stars and climate scientists, columns on Ernest Hemingway’s love life, and op-eds about the social significance of public swimming pools. She has written for The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America, xojane, Catapult, Bayou Magazine, Apogee Journal and Key West Weekly.
Sarah has taught writing at Columbia University, New York City College of Technology, and in the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America program at Princeton University. She has been a publicist for global publishing houses including Penguin and Macmillan and was formerly the editor of Key West Weekly, a great local newspaper. Sarah is a firm believer in the Key West motto “One Human Family” and is an ally in the effort to publish and promote diverse writers that illuminate the spectrum of human experience. Sarah currently works for the International Labour Organization*, a United Nations agency.
Sarah's current writing project is a novel called The Snowbird, which tells the shadow side of a summer love story, set on a gentrifying Caribbean island. To inquire and read the manuscript, please contact her here.
2023 Updates
Read Sarah's latest essay and interviews in the Florida Keys Wildsam field guide.
Sarah was the 2023 Winner of the Louisville Literary Arts Writer's Block Short Story Contest.