Sarah Elgatian is a Quad City native and mixed-identity writer whose cross-genre work has appeared in journals including 
Beholder Magazine, BRINK, The Quad-City Worker, and the Iowa Writers’ House print anthology We The Interwoven. In addition to her work to make writing accessible and joyful at the Midwest Writing Center, she also hosts the bi-weekly literary webseries Write More Light. Sarah is an MFA candidate at Regis University’s Mile High MFA and has been teaching writing and storytelling for over a decade in literary and social justice settings. A grandchild of genocide survivors, Sarah stands in solidarity with oppressed people at home and abroad. Likes: bright colors, dark coffee, loud music, and long sentences. Dislikes: meanness and corporate farming.

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Effigy is a performance of love and respect. Each sentence of Sarah’s portraiture dignifies her subjects, offering them the grace of her attention. Meanwhile her grief reads as both repetitive and banal and also always shocking and emergent. I see Sarah’s writing as community care. It’s the salve we want and need.

J’Lyn Chapman, author of To Limn / Lying In

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“Blowing my mind…shatteringly beautiful.”

Eric Baus, author of How I Became a Hum 

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